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


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 96.75% (100th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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Red Hat
8.8 high

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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.