CVE-2018-11762

unknown
Published 2018-10-17 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11762

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11762.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1.20-1
debian debiansidfixed1.20-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core>=0.9,<1.191.19

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.