CVE-2018-11762
N/A
Published: September 19, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTika
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3EQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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