Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerability in Apache Tika used by Content Collector for Email in Content Search Services container (affected, not vulnerable)

Security Bulletin

Summary

In Apache Tika, a regular expression in the 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 Apache Tika v1.28.3.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2022-30973
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the StandardsText class in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/227638 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Enterprise Content Management Text Search - 5.5.4.0 Marked as Invalid

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Enterprise Content Management Text Search	5.5.8.0 5.5.9.0
FileNet Content Manager	5.5.8.0 5.5.9.0
CP4BA	21.0.3 22.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

To resolve these vulnerabilities, install one of the patch sets listed below to upgrade Apache Tika in new ICC release.

Product	VRMF	APAR	Remediation/First Fix
FileNet Content Manager	5.5.8 5.5.9	PJ46861 PJ46861	5.5.8.0-P8CSS-IF002 - 7/27/2022 5.5.9.0-P8CSS-IF001 - 10/26/2022
CP4BA	21.0.3 22.0.1	PJ46861 PJ46861	21.0.3-IF11 - 7/27/2022 22.0.1-IF1 - 7/27/2022

In the above table, the APAR links will provide more information about the fix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Acknowledgement

Change History

26 October 2022: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerability in Apache Tika used by Content Collector for Email in Content Search Services container (affected, not vulnerable)