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SCA: security update for org.apache.poi:poi (GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411053

Description

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

 - Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
 (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
 (CVE-2014-3574)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411053

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3574

BID: 69648

cwe: CWE-20