CVE-2014-3529

Poi vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

13.3%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The OPC SAX setup in Apache POI before 3.10.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an OpenXML file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Poi

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2014-09-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 13.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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