CVE-2018-11762

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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