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SCA: security update for org.apache.poi:poi (GHSA-78vv-qj73-h9m5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411948

Description

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

 - Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU
 consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. (CVE-2017-5644)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78vv-qj73-h9m5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411948

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5644

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5644

BID: 96983

cwe: CWE-776