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CVE-2020-1951

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika: from 1.0 through 1.23
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Oracle Corporation Oracle Business Process Management Suite: 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0
• Oracle Communications Messaging Server: 8.0.2, 8.1
• Oracle Corporation FLEXCUBE Private Banking: 12.0.0, 12.1.0

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd8c1b42bd0e31870d804890b3f00b13d837c528f7ebaf77031323172%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd8c1b42bd0e31870d804890b3f00b13d837c528f7ebaf77031323172%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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