CVE-2018-11762

Published Sep 19, 2018

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source
security@apache.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.9
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.8
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-22

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations