What is CVE-2022-25169?

CVE-2022-25169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Tika, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-05-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-25169?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Apache Tika

CVE-2022-25169

The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.28.2 and 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memory on carefully crafted files.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Apache Tika
Apache Software Foundation Tika — versions Apache Tika
Oracle Primavera_unifier — versions 18.8, 19.12, 20.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security@apache.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
security@apache.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security@apache.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
security@apache.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25169?: CVE-2022-25169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Tika, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-05-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-25169?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.