CVE-2016-5000

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

4%p90

Published

Aug 5, 2016 (Aug 5, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The XLSX2CSV example in Apache POI before 3.14 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted OpenXML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Vendors: apache
Products: poi
Weakness: CWE-611
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (4.2%)

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