CVE-2018-11762

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    CVE-2018-11762

    Published: 19 Sept 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    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.

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- eb1cd6a1665a9034195b30172c0199a6143bcd45
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High