Directory Traversal Affecting tika package, versions <1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-TIKA-18483147
  • published3 Sept 2026
  • disclosed30 Jul 2026

Introduced: 30 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-66755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 tika to version 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 through 3.3.1, and 4.0.0-alpha-1, allows an attacker who can place files in a directory that the application subsequently parses to read arbitrary files accessible to the Tika process and have their contents emitted into the extracted text output, via a "Study Assay File Name" value in the ISA-Tab investigation file that traverses outside the dataset directory. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.3.2 or 4.0.0-beta-1, which fixes this issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1