CVE-2014-3529: Apache Poi

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OPC SAX setup in Apache POI before 3.10.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an OpenXML file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Apache Poi: up to and including 3.10; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2014-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.