GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core

At a glance

Published: 2018-10-17 15:49 UTC
Updated: 2023-11-08 03:59 UTC
CVE: CVE-2018-11762
CVSS_V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
Maven · org.apache.tika:tika-core	introduced 0.9, fixed 1.19

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11762 ADVISORY
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28 ADVISORY
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E WEB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515 WEB

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database