The OPC SAX setup in Apache POI before 3.10.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an OpenXML file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The OPC SAX setup in Apache POI before 3.10.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an
    OpenXML file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference,
    related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. (CVE-2014-3529)

fix for RHBZ#1138135 (CVE-2014-3574)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 3.10.1 - Security fix for CVE-2014-3529, CVE-2014-3574

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
417892	SCA: security update for org.apache.poi:poi (GHSA-q56h-jjj6-52mf)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
417892	SCA: security update for org.apache.poi:poi (GHSA-q56h-jjj6-52mf)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
81455	Fedora 21 : apache-poi-3.10.1-2.fc21 (2015-2087)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77608	Fedora 20 : apache-poi-3.10.1-1.fc20 (2014-10322)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-3529

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium