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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-3574 json

Improper Input Validation in Apache POI

published 2014-09-04 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x , EUVD-2022-2665

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.1%
EPSS 7.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.poi:poi 3.10.1, 3.11-beta2
  • libapache-poi-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.10.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3574

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-2014-3574 updated cvss 5.0

apache-poi: entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 apache-poi apache-poi Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 jasperreports-server-pro
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 apache-poi apache-poi
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 apache-poi apache-poi
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 5 apache-poi apache-poi Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 apache-poi apache-poi Red Hat Satellite 5 apache-poi
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1399
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1400
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1398
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1370
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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

7.11% 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 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.poi:poi
<3.10.1
>=3.11-beta1, <3.11-beta2
3.10.1
3.11-beta2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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