Security advisory

{
  "id": "6ca443d7288a2e2e46b5589603e2a9311cf945ddde48acd1832b05e09c139a35",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5000",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-5000",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-5000",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-5000",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-5000",
        "GHSA-pmqq-7wfv-jfff"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/poi",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8c2628d28b18448b8692e55972893809abe905ac"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:poi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.13"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "REL_3_13_FINAL"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5000.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.202714123Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apache.org",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-5000",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436278,
  "published_at": "2016-08-05T14:59:10.143+00:00"
}