VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-1339
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.56%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.56% probability · 85th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- apache/tika
- Source
- security@apache.org
EPSS 2.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d2cb5c819401bb075e2a1130e0d14f0404a136541a6f91da0225828%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d2cb5c819401bb075e2a1130e0d14f0404a136541a6f91da0225828%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.