{"id":"CVE-2018-1338","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-1338","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:30:19.195Z","title":"A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.","description":"A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.","published":"2018-04-25T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:51:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-835"],"affected":["apache/tika"],"epss":{"score":0.01916,"percentile":0.79751,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.03025,"percentile":0.8683},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01953,"percentile":0.79377}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.92%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1338","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}