CVE-2024-21651: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

January 8, 2024

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. 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. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796
search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar

Code Behaviors & Features

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