CVE-2020-1950

tika: excessive memory usage in PSDParser

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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

Un archivo PSD cuidadosamente diseñado o corrupto puede causar un uso de memoria excesivo en el PSDParser de Apache Tika en versiones 1.0-1.23.

A flaw was found in Apache Tika’s PSDParser, where a carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

This release of Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Fuse 7.7, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References. Issues addressed include XML injection, bypass, code execution, cross site scripting, denial of service, deserialization, file disclosure, information leakage, memory leak, out of bounds read, privilege escalation, server-side request forgery, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2019-12-02 CVE Reserved
2020-03-23 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2025-05-19 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html	2022-10-07
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html	2022-10-07

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E	2022-10-07
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1	2022-10-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1950	2020-12-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822759	2020-12-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Tika Search vendor "Apache" for product "Tika"				>= 1.0 <= 1.23 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Tika" and version " >= 1.0 <= 1.23"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Business Process Management Suite Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Business Process Management Suite"				12.2.1.3.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Business Process Management Suite" and version "12.2.1.3.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Business Process Management Suite Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Business Process Management Suite"				12.2.1.4.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Business Process Management Suite" and version "12.2.1.4.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Communications Messaging Server Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Messaging Server"				8.0.2 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Messaging Server" and version "8.0.2"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Communications Messaging Server Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Messaging Server"				8.1 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Messaging Server" and version "8.1"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Flexcube Private Banking Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Flexcube Private Banking"				12.0.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Flexcube Private Banking" and version "12.0.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Flexcube Private Banking Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Flexcube Private Banking"				12.1.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Flexcube Private Banking" and version "12.1.0"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				16.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "16.04"		esm		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected