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CVE-2018-11762GHSA-W6G3-V46Q-5P28

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 t

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Fix
Fixed in 1.19
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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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika

    0.9 to 1.18

  • org.apache.tika:tika-coreMaven

    From 0.9 · fixed in 1.19

References 2

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