CVE-2018-1338

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

Description

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2018-1338

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed1.18-1
debian debiansidfixed1.18-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core<1.181.18

References

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