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CVE-2017-12626

Published: Jan 29, 2018Updated: May 28, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-835
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
10.2%
Top 4.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks: 1) Infinite Loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros (POI bugs 61338 and 61294), and 2) Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS (POI bugs 52372 and 61295).

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected Products

Oracle Corp.
commercial·USaka oracle
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleToolsOn-prem
Databases
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery IntegratorOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
Oracle Communications Unified Inventory ManagementOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
Oracle Utilities Network Management SystemOn-prem
Databases / relational
Enterprise Manager Base PlatformOn-prem
Databases / db-tooling
Application Testing SuiteOn-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / build-test-tools
Retail Xstore Point of ServiceOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery StudioOn-premWeb App
Databases / data-warehouse-analytics
Apache Software Foundation
oss-project·USaka apache foundation
Apache POIOn-premLibrary
OSS Libraries / web-framework
POILibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Red Hat Inc.
commercial·USaka red hat
Jboss FuseOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.apache.poi:poi
OSS Libraries
apache
oss-project·USaka apache http server, apache httpd
poiLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
and 7 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Scannable·OpenVAS
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Attack Graph

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References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1322
access.redhat.com
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/453d9af5dbabaccd9afb58d27279a9dbfe8e35f4e5ea1645ddd6960b%40%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102879
securityfocus.com
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