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CVE-2018-1338

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

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.

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

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E

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