CVE-2018-11762
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.87%Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core
Published: 10/17/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11762
Description
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 packages (2)
- Debian/tikafrom 0, < 1.20-1
- Maven/org.apache.tika:tika-core>= 0.9, < 1.19
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11762
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11762
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515