CVE-2020-1950

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption15 documents9 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Apache TikaApache Apache TikaCanonical Ubuntu Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 23
Latest updateMay 23

Description

A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage 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:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

▶Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika1.0 — 1.24
▶NVDapache/tika1.0 — 1.23
▶CVEListV5apache/apache_tikaApache Tika 1.0-1.23
▶Debiantika< 1.22-2
▶Ubuntutika< 1.5-4ubuntu0.1+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04

Patches

Patch: www.oracle.com ↗Patch: www.oracle.com ↗Patch: www.oracle.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
OSV
tika vulnerabilities↗2025-05-23
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OSV
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika↗2021-05-07
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GHSA
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika↗2021-05-07
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OSV
tika vulnerabilities↗2020-10-05
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OSV
CVE-2020-1950: A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1↗2020-03-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Apache Tika vulnerabilities↗2025-05-23
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Ubuntu
Apache Tika vulnerabilities↗2020-10-05
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Red Hat
tika: excessive memory usage in PSDParser↗2020-03-18
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Debian
CVE-2020-1950: tika - A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apac...↗2020
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Apache
Apache tika: CVE-2020-1950↗
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1950 tika: excessive memory usage in PSDParser↗2020-04-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1950 tika: excessive memory usage in PSDParser [fedora-all]↗2020-04-09
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CVE-2020-1950 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.5) | A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD | cvebase.io