5.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-11762

Published: 19/09/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.9 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.2
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Vendor Advisories

In Apache Tika 09 to 118, 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:/evilbat", tika-app would overwrite that file ...