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SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422475

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422475

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4434

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4434

BID: 90897

cwe: CWE-611