Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-30126  

In Apache Tika, a regular expression in our 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 1.28.2 and 2.4.0

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

In Apache Tika, a regular expression in our 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 1.28.2 and 2.4.0

Additional Information

  • Bugzilla 2088523: CVE-2022-30126 tika-core: Regular Expression Denial of Service in standards extractor
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2022-30126