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Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-9489 · published 27 April 2020

CVE-2020-9489: Apache tika vulnerability

Apache · Tika

A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger a System.exit in Tika's OneNote Parser. Crafted or corrupted files can also cause out of memory errors and/or infinite loops in Tika's ICNSParser, MP3Parser, MP4Parser, SAS7BDATParser, OneNoteParser and ImageParser. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.24.1 or later. The vulnerabilities in the MP4Parser were partially fixed by upgrading the com.googlecode:isoparser:1.1.22 dependency to org.tallison:isoparser:1.9.41.2. For unrelated security reasons, we upgraded org.apache.cxf to 3.3.6 as part of the 1.24.1 release.

5.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 2.6% · top 15.2% CWE-835 · CWE-835
5.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.3
2.6%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
5Affected product versions listed by NVD
10References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger a System.exit in Tika's OneNote Parser. Crafted or corrupted files can also cause out of memory errors and/or infinite loops in Tika's ICNSParser, MP3Parser, MP4Parser, SAS7BDATParser, OneNoteParser and ImageParser. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.24.1 or later. The vulnerabilities in the MP4Parser were partially fixed by upgrading the com.googlecode:isoparser:1.1.22 dependency to org.tallison:isoparser:1.9.41.2. For unrelated security reasons, we upgraded org.apache.cxf to 3.3.6 as part of the 1.24.1 release.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

5 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cbc3f6981cd0a1a482531df9d44e4c42a7f63342a7ba78b7bff8a1b%40%3Cnotifications.james.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d943777e36ca3aa6305a45da5acccc54ad894f2d5a07186cfa2442c%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org% Mailing ListVendor Advisory
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html PatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html PatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html PatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cbc3f6981cd0a1a482531df9d44e4c42a7f63342a7ba78b7bff8a1b%40%3Cnotifications.james.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d943777e36ca3aa6305a45da5acccc54ad894f2d5a07186cfa2442c%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org% Mailing ListVendor Advisory
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html PatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html PatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html PatchThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-9489), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-29). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.