GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core

MEDIUM Published 2018-10-17 Modified 2021-09-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-11762
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tika:tika-core
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tika:tika-core: >= 0.9, < 1.19 → fixed in 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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-11762 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References