xwiki/xwiki-platform · Security
XWiki vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through attachments
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-21651
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Impact
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.
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.
Workarounds
The workaround is to download commons-compress 1.24 and replace the one located in XWiki WEB-INF/lib/ folder.
References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
- Email us at Security Mailing List
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4 ↗
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796 ↗
- https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21651 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4 ↗