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High · 7.5 CVE-2024-21651 EUVD-2024-0294GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4

XWiki Denial of Service attack through attachments

Published Jan 8, 2024 · Updated Jun 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xwiki xwiki-platform >= 14.10, < 14.10.18, >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.3, >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.8-rc-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war >= 14.10, < 14.10.18 14.10.18 GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.3 15.5.3 GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.8-rc-1 15.8-rc-1 GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4

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