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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04OTU5LXJmeGgtcjRqNM4AA4Qk

XWiki vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through attachments

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

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• Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
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Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: 4 months ago
Updated: 4 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4, CVE-2024-21651
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

Repository: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform
Blast Radius: 1.0

Affected Packages