Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-28657

Medium

Published: 31 March 2021

Published
31 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-28657 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Oracle Primavera Unifier. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apache
tika
≤ 1.25
oracle
healthcare foundation
7.3.0, 8.0.0, 8.1.0
oracle
primavera unifier
18.8, 19.12, 20.12 · 17.7 — 17.12
oracle
webcenter portal
12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0
oracle
communications messaging server
8.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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