Vulnerability · Published Jan 8, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-21651XWiki Denial of Service attack through attachments

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in xwiki-platform from xwiki. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war	14.10.18	GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war	15.5.3	GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Maven	org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war	15.8-rc-1	GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
xwiki	xwiki-platform	>= 14.10, < 14.10.18>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.3>= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.8-rc-1

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796 x_refsource_MISC