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Fencer Intel
medium 5.0

CVE-2012-0213 json

Denial of Service in Apache POI

published 2012-08-07 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-jqx5-h2hw-5q4f , EUVD-2022-4420

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.5%
EPSS 7.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The UnhandledDataStructure function in hwpf/model/UnhandledDataStructure.java in Apache POI 3.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OutOfMemoryError exception and possibly JVM destabilization) via a crafted length value in a Channel Definition Format (CDF) or Compound File Binary Format (CFBF) document.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.poi:poi 3.10-beta1
  • maven org.apache.poi:poi-scratchpad 3.10-beta1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-0213 updated cvss 4.3

jakarta: JVM destabilization due to memory exhaustion when processing CDF/CFBF files

  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 5 portal
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 5.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1232
  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 unspecified unspecified
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.poi:poi
<3.10-beta1
3.10-beta1
maven org.apache.poi:poi-scratchpad
<3.10-beta1
3.10-beta1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.