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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2019-10093 json

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Apache Tika

published 2019-08-02 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4mq5-mj59-qq9c , EUVD-2019-0618

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Apache Tika 1.19 to 1.21, a carefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available SAXParsers in the pool and lead to very long hangs. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tika:tika-parsers 1.22
  • tika Debian 11 1.22-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10093

  • cobbler Manager Server Module 4.0 3.0.0+git20190806.32c4bae0-7.3.7
  • mgr-osad Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.10-3.6.8
  • spacecmd Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.16-3.6.7
  • pgjdbc-ng Manager Server Module 4.0 0.7.1-3.3.8
  • tika-core Manager Server Module 4.0 1.22-3.3.7
  • susemanager Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.17-3.6.9
  • spacewalk-web Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.16-3.9.8
  • spacewalk-java Manager Server Module 4.0 4.0.25-3.10.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2930-1SUSE-SU-2019:2521-1

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-2019-10093 updated cvss 6.5

tika: arefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available SAXParsers in the pool and lead to DoS

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

3.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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-parsers
>=1.19, <1.22
1.22

Affected products

  • Apache Apache Tika

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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