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.

Published 2022-05-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (82.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: +0.000

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

lists.apache.org/thread/t3tb51sf0k2pmbnzsrrrm23z9r1c10rk (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/16/4 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (Third Party Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220804-0004/ (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.