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 an embedded file with an absolute path, such as "C:/evil.bat", tika-app would overwrite that file.

Published: Sep 19, 2018
Updated: Nov 8, 2023
CVE: CVE-2018-11762
GHSA: GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.9
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-22

OWASP TOP 10:

A5 - Broken Access Control

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / tika	0.9	1.18.x
org.apache.tika / tika-core	0.9	1.19

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E

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CVE-2018-11762

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