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

Description

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

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• Excessive memory usage (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser
• CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Apache · Apache Tika

  • affected Apache Tika 1.0-1.23

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.tika:tikaGHSA-3h29-52vh-pqgr (opens in a new tab)

References (5)

• [debian-lts-announce] 20200328 [SECURITY] [DLA 2161-1] tika security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-4564-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.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-3h29-52vh-pqgr (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 06:54 UTC.