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ubuntu-cve-2018-11762

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2018-09-19 14:29

Modified

2026-05-20 14:50

Summary

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11762	REPORT
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/…	REPORT
	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11762	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-19 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:26

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Zip Slip Vulnerability in Apache Tika's tika-app

Assigner

apache

References

2 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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tika	Affected: 0.9 to 1.18

Date Public

2018-09-19 00:00

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ubuntu-cve-2018-11762

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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

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