CVE-2018-1335: apache software foundation apache tika
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-1335 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in apache software foundation apache tika. EPSS estimates a 93.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.
Timeline
- 25-04-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 17-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
93.55%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
100%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.20 pp
From 93.76% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
3 foundApache Tika 1.15 - 1.17 - Header Command Injection (Metasploit)
Maturity: weaponized
Apache Tika-server < 1.18 - Command Injection
Maturity: weaponized
Apache Tika Header Command Injection
exploit/windows/http/apache_tika_jp2_jscript
Maturity: weaponized
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Apache1 product
- tika< 1.18
Apache software foundation1 product
- apache tika1.7 to 1.17
Debian1 product
- tika< 1.18-1
Org.apache.tika1 product
- tika-core≥ 1.7, < 1.18
Ubuntu1 product
- tikaAll versions (No fix recorded)
5 vendors · 5 products
