THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-17197
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-17197

Tika vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Tika
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
Published
2018-12-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-17197

  • Confirm whether Apache Tika is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-17197.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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