{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644","details":"Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:10Z","published":"2017-03-24T14:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-5644"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5644"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/20/9"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5644"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libapache-poi-java","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libapache-poi-java@3.10.1-2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.10.1-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libapache-poi-java","binary_version":"3.10.1-2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}