UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11762

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11762
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11762.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11762
Upstream
Published
2018-09-19T14:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:37:49.250617Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-4ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-2
1.5-3
1.5-4
1.5-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-5?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-5

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.22-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-1"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:25.04 / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=plucky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}