Apache Tika 0.9 - 1.18 Zip Slip Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
🗓️ 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to publicly disclosed vulnerabilities from Apache Tika (CVE-2018-11761, CVE-2018-11762, CVE-2018-8017, CVE-2018-11796) | 10 Jul 201915:05 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is affected by vulnerabilities | 15 Apr 202503:18 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is affected by security vulnerabilities | 11 Jan 202221:02 | – | ibm | |
| Apache Tika Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability | 21 Sep 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2018-11762 | 19 Sep 201814:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-11762 | 19 Sep 201814:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2018-11762 | 19 Sep 201814:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2018-0706 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core | 17 Oct 201815:49 | – | github | |
| CVE-2018-11762 | 19 Sep 201814:29 | – | nvd |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:tika";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.814055");
script_version("2025-08-22T05:39:46+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-22 05:39:46 +0000 (Fri, 22 Aug 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-09-27 15:38:59 +0530 (Thu, 27 Sep 2018)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-11-20 21:02:00 +0000 (Tue, 20 Nov 2018)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-11762");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Apache Tika 0.9 - 1.18 Zip Slip Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_apache_tika_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("apache/tika/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Apache Tika is prone to a zip slip arbitrary file overwrite
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to an error where a user does not specify
an extract directory on the commandline and the input file has an embedded file with an absolute
path, tika-app overwrites that file.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to overwrite
arbitrary files.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Apache Tika version 0.9 through 1.18.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.19 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "0.9", test_version2: "1.18")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.19");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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6.1Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.1
CVSS 25.8
CVSS 35.9
EPSS0.05449