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poi: a specially crafted Microsoft Excel document allows attacker to read files from the local filesystem

Published Oct 23, 2019

Description

In Apache POI up to 4.1.0, when using the tool XSSFExportToXml to convert user-provided Microsoft Excel documents, a specially crafted document can allow an attacker to read files from the local filesystem or from internal network resources via XML External Entity (XXE) Processing.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat mitigation

The vulnerability is in the XSSFExportToXml util; avoid usage of this tool to mitigate the vulnerability.

Weaknesses (1)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner apache
Published Oct 23, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved May 28, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Feb 13, 2020
GHSA-9JWC-Q6J3-8G9G