title: Apache Tika Regular Expression Denial of Service in Standards Extractor
description: 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
problem types: Denial of Service
affected:
{
product: Apache Tika
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 1.28.1, status: affected, version: Apache Tika, versionType: custom
}
metrics:
other: [
content: {'other': 'low'}
type: unknown
]
workarounds: Upgrade to 1.28.2 or 2.4.0