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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2022-25169

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika prior to 1.28.2 and 2.x prior to 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memory on carefully crafted files.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published