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    CVE-2021-28657

    A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika 1.25. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.26 or later.

    Published:Mar 30, 2021
    Last Modified:Feb 13, 2025
    EPS:Mar 31, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00478
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Tika
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Communications Messaging Server
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Healthcare Foundation
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Primavera Unifier
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Webcenter Portal

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cbc3f6981cd0a1a482531df9d44e4c42a7f63342a7ba78b7bff8a1b%40%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r915add4aa52c60d1b5cf085039cfa73a98d7fae9673374dfd7744b5a%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0004/
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cbc3f6981cd0a1a482531df9d44e4c42a7f63342a7ba78b7bff8a1b%40%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r915add4aa52c60d1b5cf085039cfa73a98d7fae9673374dfd7744b5a%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0004/
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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