CVE-2018-11762
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…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 5.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tika
- affected 0.9 to 1.18
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-coreGHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- 105515 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [tika-dev] 20180919 [CVE-2018-11762] Zip Slip Vulnerability in Apache Tika's tika-app (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0706 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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