Medium severity · published Apr 25, 2018
CVE-2018-1338
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18
5.5
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
Tika · Apache
before 1.18 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1338
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1338
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
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