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CVE-2018-11762

5.9 mediumEPSS 5.4%

Medium (5.9) in apache tika. EPSS 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.tika:tika-core 1.19.

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

CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core>=0.9 <1.191.19

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