Bug 1802531 (CVE-2019-12415)

Summary:	CVE-2019-12415 poi: a specially crafted Microsoft Excel document allows attacker to read files from the local filesystem
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, akoufoud, alazarot, almorale, anstephe, chazlett, drieden, etirelli, extras-orphan, ggaughan, gvarsami, ibek, janstey, java-sig-commits, jcoleman, jochrist, jolee, jschatte, jstastny, jwon, krathod, kverlaen, ldimaggi, lef, mnovotny, nwallace, pjindal, rrajasek, rsynek, rwagner, sdaley, tcunning, tkirby
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	poi 4.1.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1802532
Bug Blocks:	1802533

Description Marian Rehak 2020-02-13 11:15:21 UTC

In Apache POI up to 4.1.0, when converting user-provided Microsoft Excel documents, a specially crafted document can allow an attacker to read files from the local filesystem or from internal network resources via XML External Entity (XXE) Processing.

Upstream Advisory:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13a54b6a03369cfb418a699180ffb83bd727320b6ddfec198b9b728e@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-02-13 11:16:47 UTC

Created apache-poi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1802532]

Comment 4 Chess Hazlett 2020-02-13 18:18:54 UTC

Mitigation:

The vulnerability is in the XSSFExportToXml util; avoid usage of this tool to mitigate the vulnerability.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-12-14 21:32:38 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.10

Via RHSA-2021:5134 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5134

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-12-14 22:04:24 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-12415