GHSA-3h29-52vh-pqgr · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-1950 is rated Moderate Risk (43.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.41%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-01-29 | 0.25% | 0.41% | +0.16% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 0.84% | 0.25% | -0.59% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 0.84% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-3h29-52vh-pqgr · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2020-1950 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tika), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bullseye, sid): resolved 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1950 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1950 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2020-1950 severity moderate: SUSE including 1 source package names (tika-core), 2 product×package rows across 2 product lines (SUSE Manager Server 3.2, SUSE Manager Server Module 4.0): Known Not Affected 2. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1950/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2020-1950 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tika), 17 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 7, not-affected 4, needs-triage 3, released 2, DNE 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1950 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | tika | >= 1.0, <= 1.23 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | business_process_management_suite | 12.2.1.3.0 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:business_process_management_suite:12.2.1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | business_process_management_suite | 12.2.1.4.0 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:business_process_management_suite:12.2.1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | communications_messaging_server | 8.0.2 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_messaging_server:8.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | communications_messaging_server | 8.1 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_messaging_server:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | flexcube_private_banking | 12.0.0 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:flexcube_private_banking:12.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | flexcube_private_banking | 12.1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:flexcube_private_banking:12.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |