Vulnerability in tika (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1335)

Summary

Vulnerability in tika (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1335). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.18-1 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1335 has been found in tika.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade tika to 1.18-1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "tika DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1335" on the vendor's site.

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1335 (tika)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.18-1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in tika.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of tika.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 1.18-1.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'tika' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'tika' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で tika を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade tika to 1.18-1
```
ステージング環境で 1.18-1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Debian:11 tika

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.18-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org