Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core · CVE-2018-11762 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.apache.tika:tika-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 0.9, < 1.19

Patched versions

1.19

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 17, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.9

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

High

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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