Name: CVE-2018-11762: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-09-19T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-11762, CWE-22, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.00866

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade tika	Jul 30, 2024	Sep 19, 2018

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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