Memory leak in Apache Tika - CVE-2020-9489
Published: April 27, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU34420
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9489
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger a System.exit in Tika's OneNote Parser. Crafted or corrupted files can also cause out of memory errors and/or infinite loops in Tika's ICNSParser, MP3Parser, MP4Parser, SAS7BDATParser, OneNoteParser and ImageParser. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.24.1 or later. The vulnerabilities in the MP4Parser were partially fixed by upgrading the com.googlecode:isoparser:1.1.22 dependency to org.tallison:isoparser:1.9.41.2. For unrelated security reasons, we upgraded org.apache.cxf to 3.3.6 as part of the 1.24.1 release.
Affected software
Apache Tika
Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server
Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking
Oracle WebCenter Portal
Primavera Unifier
Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server
Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking
Oracle WebCenter Portal
Primavera Unifier
How to mitigate CVE-2020-9489
Install update from vendor's website.