Medium severity · published Sep 19, 2018
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…
5.9
CVSS
5.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.4% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
Tika · Apache
0.9 through 1.18 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11762
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11762
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
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