Resource exhaustion in Apache Tika - CVE-2020-1950
Published: March 31, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU26469
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1950
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper resource management in "PSDParser". A remote attacker can use a specially crafted PSD file, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Apache Tika
Ubuntu
libtika-java (Ubuntu package)
tika (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
libtika-java (Ubuntu package)
tika (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2020-1950
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache Tika - update to 1.24
libtika-java (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.5-4ubuntu0.1
tika (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1
libtika-java (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.5-4ubuntu0.1
tika (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1