CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. It affects Apache.
CVE
CVE-2018-11762
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
5.45%
Apache
Original NVD 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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