Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37154

#VU37154 Infinite loop in Apache Tika - CVE-2018-1338

Published: April 25, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37154

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1338

CWE-ID: CWE-835

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Apache Tika

Software vendor:
Apache Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

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