{"id":"CVE-2018-11762","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-w6g3-v46q-5p28"],"modified":"2026-03-14T09:27:29.388140Z","published":"2018-09-19T14:29:00.397Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/tika","events":[{"introduced":"eb1cd6a1665a9034195b30172c0199a6143bcd45"},{"last_affected":"38ff2a986af24ee255f1f91d654ea402f4016696"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0.9"},{"last_affected":"1.18"}]}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-11762.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}