Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache POI affects IBM Emptoris Services Procurement (CVE-2017-5644)

Summary

Open Source Apache Poi vulnerability affects IBM Emptoris Services Procurement

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5644 Description: Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, cause by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. By using a specially-crafted OOXML file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123699&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Emptoris Services Procurement 10.1.1.x

Remediation/Fixes

The remediation to this issue is to apply an interim fix or a fix pack as soon as practical. Please see below for the information on the fixes available.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

8 November 2017: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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