CVE-2018-11762
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.87%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-11762
To remediate CVE-2018-11762, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.20-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.19 or later
Is CVE-2018-11762 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.20-1
- >= 0.9, < 1.19
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |