Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow     remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in     OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.
    (CVE-2016-4434)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

  - Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow
    remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in
    OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.
    (CVE-2016-4434)

Update to newer release of Tika including security fixes for CVE-2016-4434 and CVE-2016-6809.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254040	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4434	Nessus	Misc.	high
422475	SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7f)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
422475	SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7f)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
120477	Fedora 28 : tika (2018-639385f5ec)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2016-4434

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Tenable Plugins

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