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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Apache Tika

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 6, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.tika:tika-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.7, < 1.22

Patched versions

1.22

Description

A carefully crafted package/compressed file that, when unzipped/uncompressed yields the same file (a quine), causes a StackOverflowError in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2019
Reviewed Aug 6, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 6, 2019
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.189%
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-10094

GHSA ID

GHSA-mm7m-xg4h-6m52

Source code

No known source code
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