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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2019-10088 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-mfwh-gqx8-c787 , EUVD-2019-0638

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21. Users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10088

  • 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-2019-10088 updated cvss 6.5

tika: a carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM

  • 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

4.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tika:tika-core
>=1.7, <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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