CVE-2018-1335

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 93.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

From Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17, clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running tika-server. This vulnerability only affects those running tika-server on a server that is open to untrusted clients. The mitigation is to upgrade to Tika 1.18.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika: before 1.18 — fixed in 1.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika 1.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153864/Apache-Tika-1.17-Header-Command-Injection.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104001
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3140
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b3ed4432380af767effd4c6f27665cc7b2686acccbefeb9f55851dca%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46540/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153864/Apache-Tika-1.17-Header-Command-Injection.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104001
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3140
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b3ed4432380af767effd4c6f27665cc7b2686acccbefeb9f55851dca%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46540/

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