CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-12626

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Apache POI versions prior to 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. These issues include infinite loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG files and macros, as well as Out of Memory exceptions while parsing DOC, PPT, and XLS files.

Risk Assessment

Attacks may lead to service unavailability, impacting organizational continuity and potentially causing financial losses.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade Apache POI to version 3.17 or later to mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks: 1) Infinite Loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros (POI bugs 61338 and 61294), and 2) Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS (POI bugs 52372 and 61295).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS