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CVE-2020-9489 json

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Apache Tika

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-4pv3-63jw-4jw2 , EUVD-2021-0946

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tika:tika 1.24.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-9489 updated cvss 5.5

tika-core: Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Some of Apache Tika's Parsers

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 tika-core Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 tika-core Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 tika-core Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 tika-core
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5568

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tika:tika
<1.24.1
1.24.1

Affected products

  • The Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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