Stack Overflow Affecting org.apache.tika:tika-core package, versions [1.7,1.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETIKA-456557
  • published 4 Aug 2019
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2019
  • credit Tim Allison

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tika:tika-core to version 1.22 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tika:tika-core is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack Overflow due to a carefully crafted package/compressed file that, when unzipped/uncompressed yields the same file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low