CVE-2018-11796: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

October 9, 2018 (updated September 3, 2019)

Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse; the parser ignores entity expansion limits after the first parse.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105585
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11796

Code Behaviors & Features

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