Security Bulletin
Summary
Public disclosed vulnerability from Apache Poi
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2017-12626
Description: Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error while parsing malicious WMF, EMF, MSG and macros and specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop or an out of memory exception.
CVSS Base Score: 5.50
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138361 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products and Versions
IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 4
IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 Patch 13
Remediation/Fixes
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
23 October 2018: First Publish
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
03 December 2018
UID
ibm10729697