We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a regular expression in the StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to a denial of service caused by backtracking on a specially crafted file. This only affects users who are running the StandardsExtractingContentHandler, which is a non-standard handler. This is fixed in 1.28.3.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a     regular expression in the StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to     a denial of service caused by backtracking on a specially crafted file. This only affects users who are     running the StandardsExtractingContentHandler, which is a non-standard handler. This is fixed in 1.28.3.
    (CVE-2022-30973)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7529-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by using a crafted or corrupt PSD     file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

    It was discovered that Apache Tika incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a
    regular expression in the StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to
    a denial of service caused by backtracking on a specially crafted file. This only affects users who are
    running the StandardsExtractingContentHandler, which is a non-standard handler. This is fixed in 1.28.3.
    (CVE-2022-30973)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
257402	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-30973	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
237252	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Apache Tika vulnerabilities (USN-7529-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
418354	SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-qw3f-w4pf-jh5f)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
418354	SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-qw3f-w4pf-jh5f)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium

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