Medium severity · published Mar 23, 2020
CVE-2020-1951
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23
5.5
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BP
Business Process Management Suite · Oracle
12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 · source: NVD
CM
Communications Messaging Server · Oracle
8.0.2; 8.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
FP
Flexcube Private Banking · Oracle
12.0.0; 12.1.0 · source: NVD
TI
Tika · Apache
1.0 through 1.23 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1951
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1951
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd8c1b42bd0e31870d804890b3f00b13d837c528f7ebaf77031323172%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
Patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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