CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-11761.md

### [CVE-2018-11761](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11761)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Apache%20Tika&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Denial%20of%20Service%20via%20XML%20Entity%20Expansion&color=brighgreen)

### Description

In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/0xT11/CVE-POC
- https://github.com/brianwrf/CVE-2018-11761
- https://github.com/brianwrf/TechArticles