CVE-2018-11762 (Medium) detected in tika-core-1.18.jar

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CVE-2018-11762 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - tika-core-1.18.jar

This is the core Apache Tika™ toolkit library from which all other modules inherit functionality. It also includes the core facades for the Tika API.

Library home page: http://tika.apache.org/

Path to vulnerable library: /pizza-ui-tests/node_modules/allure-commandline/dist/lib/tika-core-1.18.jar

Dependency Hierarchy: - :x: **tika-core-1.18.jar** (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: b784718100dc8ca278a0aad1c22fba2cd661b638

Vulnerability 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.

Publish Date: 2018-09-19

URL: CVE-2018-11762

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.9)

Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: High - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: High - Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11762

Release Date: 2018-09-19

Fix Resolution: 1.19

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