CVE-2014-3529

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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 products

Apache Software Foundation Apache POI: through 3.10; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+57)

References

http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59943
http://secunia.com/advisories/60419
http://secunia.com/advisories/61766
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69647
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78018

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