CVE-2018-1338

N/A

Published: April 25, 2018 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:51 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorTika

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

95%

v < 1.18

Affected range stops below 1.18, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Vector?

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-835

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