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CVE-2017-12626 in the critical feed json

Denial of Service in Apache POI

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-523c-xh4g-mh5m , EUVD-2021-0489

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.1%
EPSS 10.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.poi:poi 3.17
  • apache poi 3.17
  • libapache-poi-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.17-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12626

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12626 updated cvss 5.3

poi: Parsing of multiple file types can cause a denial of service via infinite loop or out of memory exception

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 poi poi Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 poi poi
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 poi poi Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 poi poi Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 poi poi
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1322
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 apache-poi Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 poi poi
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5mo ago

Exploit prediction

10.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.poi:poi
<3.17
3.17

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache POI

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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