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CVE-2020-1950 (GCVE-0-2020-1950)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-23 13:21 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:54
VLAI
Summary
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.
CWE
  • Excessive memory usage (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Apache Tika Affected: Apache Tika 1.0-1.23
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Date Public
2020-03-18 00:00
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