A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.

Description

A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.1% · top 6.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Denial of Service
• CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-835 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tika

  • affected Apache Tika 1.8-1.19.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-parsersGHSA-3448-vfvv-xp9g (opens in a new tab)

References (5)

• 106293 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7c021a4ea2037e52e74628e17e8e0e2acab1f447160edc8be0eae6d3%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [lucene-solr-user] 20200320 CVEs (vulnerabilities) that apply to Solr 8.4.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-3448-vfvv-xp9g (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 10:39 UTC.