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Medium USN-7529-1 5 CVEs

tika vulnerabilities

Published May 23, 2025 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by
using a crafted or corrupt PSD file. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

It was discovered that Apache Tika incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS tika 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS tika 1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Medium 5.5

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika

    A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

  • Medium 5.5

    Infinite Loop in Apache Tika

    A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

  • Medium 5.5

    Apache Tika Regular Expression Denial of Service in Standards Extractor

    In Apache Tika, a regular expression in our StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to a denial of service caused by backtracking on a specially crafted file. This only affects users who are running the StandardsExtractin…

  • Medium 5.5

    Missing fix for CVE-2022-30126 in 1.28.2

    We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a regular expression in the StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to a denial of service caused by backtracking on a…

  • Low 3.3

    Incomplete fix and new regex DoS in StandardsExtractingContentHandler

    The initial fixes in CVE-2022-30126 and CVE-2022-30973 for regexes in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler were insufficient, and we found a separate, new regex DoS in a different regex in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler. These are now fixed in 1.28.4 …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1950
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1951
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-30126
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-30973
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-33879