Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-11762

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.apache.tika:tika-coreMaven	>= 0.9, < 1.19	1.19

Affected products

ghsa-coords
pkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-core
Range: >= 0.9, < 1.19
Apache/Apachecpe-rescue
Range: 0.9 to 1.18

Patches

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB EntryWEB
github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28ghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11762ghsaADVISORY
lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3EghsaWEB
lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3Envd

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