CVE-2024-21651

HIGH

XWiki 14.10-14.10.17 - Denial of Service via Malformed TAR File Attachment

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A user able to attach a file to a page can post a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed by Tika, could cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 66.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-distribution-war 14.10 - 14.10.18Maven
xwiki/xwiki 14.10 - 14.10.18
Published Jan 09, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026