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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Apache Tika vulnerabilities (USN-7529-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237252

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected libtika-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7529-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237252

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7529-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2025

Updated: 5/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30126

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30973

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtika-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951, CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879

USN: 7529-1