Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting org.apache.tika:tika-core package, versions [,1.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    96.9% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETIKA-480543
  • published 29 Apr 2018
  • disclosed 25 Apr 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tika:tika-core to version 1.18 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tika:tika-core is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. Clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running to the tika-server.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High