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Users should upgrade to 1.19.1 or later.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2018-11796","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11796"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1111309 for CVE-2018-11796","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111309"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2018-11796","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-04-25T07:01:28Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T04:27:05Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2018-11796","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T04:27:05Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T04:27:05Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-01-01T07:38:41Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-02-18T07:04:49Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-03-15T12:06:10Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-04-25T07:01:28Z","number":"6","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"6"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"branches":[{"branches":[{"category":"product_name","name":"SUSE Manager Server 3.2","product":{"name":"SUSE Manager Server 3.2","product_id":"SUSE Manager Server 3.2","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/o:suse:suse-manager-server:3.2"}}},{"category":"product_name","name":"SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0","product":{"name":"SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0","product_id":"SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/o:suse:sle-module-suse-manager-server:4.0"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"tika-core","product":{"name":"tika-core","product_id":"tika-core","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/tika-core@?upstream=tika-core.src.rpm"}}}],"category":"product_family","name":"SUSE Linux Enterprise"}],"category":"vendor","name":"SUSE"}],"relationships":[{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"tika-core as component of SUSE Manager Server 3.2","product_id":"SUSE Manager Server 3.2:tika-core"},"product_reference":"tika-core","relates_to_product_reference":"SUSE Manager Server 3.2"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"tika-core as component of SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0","product_id":"SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0:tika-core"},"product_reference":"tika-core","relates_to_product_reference":"SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0"}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2018-11796","ids":[{"system_name":"SUSE CVE Page","text":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11796"}],"notes":[{"category":"general","text":"In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika versions from 0.1 to 1.19 are therefore still vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack. 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