Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting tika package, versions <1.18-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.3% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-TIKA-327256
  • published6 Apr 2017
  • disclosed6 Apr 2017

Introduced: 6 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-6809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable tika to version 1.18-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tika package and not the tika package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1