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CVE-2018-11762

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CVE-2018-11762

Published: Sep 19, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Tika

affected
0.9 to 1.18

References

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