CVE-2020-1950 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tika
Attackers can cause excessive memory usage and denial of service by providing a crafted PSD file to Apache Tika.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-1950?
CVE-2020-1950 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1950?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.tika:tika. It affects 6 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.apache.tika:tika Maven | From 1.0 | 1.24 |
org.apache.tika:tika Maven | From 1.0 | 1.24 |
Products include Apache Tika, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Oracle Business Process Management Suite, Oracle Communications Messaging Server, Oracle Flexcube Private Banking.
How do I fix CVE-2020-1950?
Upgrade org.apache.tika:tika to 1.24 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-1950 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1950 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
- CVE-2019-10088 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Apache Tika
- CVE-2025-66516 Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability
- CVE-2025-54988 Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
- CVE-2018-1335 Command injection in org.apache.tika:tika-core
- CVE-2019-10094 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Apache Tika
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1950, GHSA-3h29-52vh-pqgr, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1950.