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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - security@apache.org

Published

2018-09-19

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Tika (Apache)
• Apache Tika (Apache Software Foundation)

References

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