CVE-2018-11762 Information

Description

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@3Cdev.tika.apache.org3E

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9