Vulnerability: File Overwrite in Apache Tika

CVE-2018-11762 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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