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SCA: security update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-9r24-gp44-h3pm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422793

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2018-1335)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r24-gp44-h3pm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422793

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1335

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2018

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Apache Tika Header Command Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1335

BID: 104001