Medium (5.5). EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.tika:tika-core 1.28.2, 2.4.0.
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
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)