Security Advisory
CVE-2018-11762
5.9
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 19, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory