Medium severity · published Dec 24, 2018
CVE-2018-17197
A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika
6.5
CVSS
6.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)6.1% · 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
1.8 through 1.19.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17197
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17197
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106293
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7c021a4ea2037e52e74628e17e8e0e2acab1f447160edc8be0eae6d3%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
www.oracle.com
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
www.oracle.com
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
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