High severity · published Aug 2, 2019
CVE-2019-10088
A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21
8.8
CVSS
4.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21. Users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.8% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
Tika · Apache
1.7 through 1.21 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10088
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10088
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c63555609b737c20d1bbfa4a3e73ec488e3408a84e2f5e47e1b7e08%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39723d8227b248781898c200aa24b154683673287b150a204b83787d%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/da9ee189d1756f8508d0f2386d8e25aca5a6df541739829232be8a94%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fb6c84fd387de997e5e366d50b0ca331a328c466432c80f8c5eed33d%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0004/
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