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Problem Note 62379: SAS® Workflow Studio is dependent on a version of Apache POI that contains a security vulnerability
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Severity: High
Description: SAS Workflow Studio contains a dependency on Apache POI. Versions of Apache POI prior to release 3.15 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption). The remote attack potentially uses a specially crafted OOXML file, also known as an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Potential Impact: There is a total shutdown of the affected resource. The attacker can render the resource completely unavailable.
For additional details see: CVE-2017-5644
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Workflow Studio | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 1.3_M4 | 9.4 TS1M4 | ||||