Medium severity · published Aug 2, 2019
CVE-2019-10093
In Apache Tika 1.19 to 1.21, a carefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available SAXParsers in the pool and lead to very long hangs
6.5
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Apache Tika 1.19 to 1.21, a carefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available SAXParsers in the pool and lead to very long hangs. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
Tika · Apache
1.19 through 1.21 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10093
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10093
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/a5a44eff1b9eda3bc69d22943a1030c43d376380c75d3ab04d0c1a21%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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