CVE catalog
CVE-2016-4434
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4434
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 3.57% · Oct 27, 2026
Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | tika | 11 | 1.18-1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | tika | 16.04 | 1.5-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tika | 16.04 | 1.5-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tika | 16.04 | 1.5-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tika | 16.04 | 1.5-4ubuntu0.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tika | 18.04 | 1.5-5 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | tika | deb | 11 | 1.18-1 | Not reported | DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4434 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed: