CVE-2018-11762 (GCVE-0-2018-11762)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-19 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:26
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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.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Zip Slip Vulnerability in Apache Tika's tika-app
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika Affected: 0.9 to 1.18
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Date Public
2018-09-19 00:00
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