CVE-2018-11762

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.054 · 93 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.45% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 5.8 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 4.9

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.05.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika≤ 0.9 to 1.18enisa_euvdEU
apache tika0.9 → 1.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.tika:tika-core0.9 → 1.19osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-core

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core2018-10-17ghsa · osvUS
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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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-09-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

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