CVE-2018-11762: Path Traversal

September 19, 2018 (updated November 20, 2018)

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, tika-app would overwrite that file.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105515
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11762

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