Resource Exhaustion Affecting tika package, versions <1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.99% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-TIKA-1137644
  • published30 Jul 2025
  • disclosed23 Mar 2020

Introduced: 23 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-1950  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 tika to version 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1