5.5med

CVE-2018-1338

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

Also known as GHSA-5mf7-26mw-3rqr

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.9%
percentile 80%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.92% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core
<1.18
1.18

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

  • access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2669 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
  • lists.apache.org /thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1338 · advisory
  • github.com /advisories/GHSA-5mf7-26mw-3rqr · advisory
  • lists.apache.org /thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932@%3Cdev.tika.apache.o · web

Sources

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