CVE-2018-11762: Apache Tika

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Tika: from 0.9, up to and including 1.18

Published 2018-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.