Directory Traversal Affecting tika package, versions <1.20-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published25 Sept 2018
- disclosed19 Sept 2018
Introduced: 19 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-11762 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable tika to version 1.20-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tika package and not the tika package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11762
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E