Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core · CVE-2018-1338 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.apache.tika:tika-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.18

Patched versions

1.18

Description

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 17, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Local

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H