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CVE-2018-11762
published 2018-09-19

CVE-2018-11762: In Apache Tika 0.9 to 1.18, in a rare edge case where a user does not specify an extract directory on the commandline (--extract-dir=) and the input file has…

PriorityP432medium5.9CVSS 3.0
AVNACHPRNUINSUCNIHAN
EPSS
5.45%
91.8th percentile
In Apache Tika 0.9 to 1.18, in a rare edge case where a user does not specify an extract directory on the commandline (--extract-dir=) and the input file has an embedded file with an absolute path, such as "C:/evil.bat", tika-app would overwrite that file.

Affected

5 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
apachetika
apachetika>= 0 < 1.20-11.20-1
apachetika0.9 – 1.18
apache_software_foundationapache_tika
debiantika< tika 1.20-1 (bullseye)tika 1.20-1 (bullseye)

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvdv2.05.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
osv5.9MEDIUM
vendor_apache5.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.9MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.9MEDIUM
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