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Medium 5.5HealthcarePublished Mar 31, 2021
CVE-2021-28657Infinite loop in Apache Tika's MP3 parser
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It affects Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika and 5 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.74%, higher than 86% of scored CVEs.
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A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika 1.25. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.26 or later.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-835
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 2.74% (percentile 86)
- Assigned by
- apache
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 12, 2026
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika apache_software_foundation:apache_tika (from the name) | from Apache Tika before 1.26 | CNA record |
apache tika apache:tika | through 1.25 | NVD |
oracle healthcare_foundation oracle:healthcare_foundation | 7.3.0; 8.0.0; 8.1.0 | NVD |
oracle primavera_unifier oracle:primavera_unifier | from 17.7 through 17.12; 18.8; 19.12; 20.12 | NVD |
oracle webcenter_portal oracle:webcenter_portal | 12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_messaging_server oracle:communications_messaging_server | 8.1 | NVD |
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r915add4aa52c60d1b5cf085039cfa73a98d7fae9673374dfd7744b5a%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3Ex-refsource-misc, mailing-list, vendor-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cbc3f6981cd0a1a482531df9d44e4c42a7f63342a7ba78b7bff8a1b%40%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlx-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0004/x-refsource-confirm, third-party-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlx-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
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