CVE-2016-5000

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The XLSX2CSV example in Apache POI before 3.14 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted OpenXML document containing an 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 3.13

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538981/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92100
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037741
https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apache.org
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538981/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92100
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037741
https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apache.org
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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