A flaw was found 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. References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ab2e1af38975f5fc462ba89b517971ef892ec3d06bee12ea2258895b@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/256
Created tika tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632470]
Upstream bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2687 Upstream commits: https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/a09d853dbed712f644e274b497cce254f3189d57 https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/5c78eb78893fa077a4e58be4484eab4717667d52
The tika packages as shipped as part of the Eclipse collections do not include tika-app and are therefore unaffected by this issue.
Red Hat Satellite 5 does not ship the vulnerable code, and thus is not affected by this flaw.
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-11762