CVE-2018-11762

tika: Zip Slip vulnerability in tika-app

Published Sep 19, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 5.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0706 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
apache
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 8:26 PM
Reserved
Jun 5, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 19, 2018, 2:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:36 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 19, 2018, 12:00 AM