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

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tika	0.9 to 1.18

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E

Timeline

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

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