Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-28657
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-28657
Complete source record
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"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-03-31T08:15:11.267+00:00"
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