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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-28657 json

Infinite loop in Apache Tika's MP3 parser

published 2021-03-31 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-567x-m4wm-87v8 , EUVD-2021-0949

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tika:tika 1.26
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika 1.26
  • cobbler Manager Server Module 4.0 3.0.0+git20190806.32c4bae0-7.22.3
  • tika-core Manager Server Module 4.0 1.26-3.6.3
  • susemanager Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.34-3.52.3
  • spacewalk-web Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.28-3.45.1
  • spacewalk-java Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.44-3.57.5
  • grafana-formula Manager Server Module 4.0 0.2.3-4.16.3
  • spacewalk-utils Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.21-3.30.3
  • susemanager-sls Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.35-3.48.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2114-1SUSE-SU-2021:2098-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-28657 updated cvss 5.5

tika-parsers: Infinite loop in MP3Parser

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 tika-parsers tika-parsers
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 tika-parsers tika-parsers
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 tika-parsers tika-parsers Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 tika-parsers tika-parsers
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tika:tika
<1.26
1.26

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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