Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

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.

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:

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