CVE-2019-12415: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

October 23, 2019 (updated November 6, 2019)

When using the tool XSSFExportToXml to convert 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.

References

lists.apache.org/thread.html/13a54b6a03369cfb418a699180ffb83bd727320b6ddfec198b9b728e@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12415

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