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CVE-2018-1335

90
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1335 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Apache Tika versions 1.7 through 1.17, specifically impacting tika-server when exposed to untrusted clients. Attackers can craft malicious headers to inject commands into the server's command line, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (High) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability has readily available exploit modules in Metasploit and Nuclei, as well as public exploits on ExploitDB. Despite the high exploitability and severe impact, there is limited community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
93.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Apache Tika Header Command Injection · Apr 25, 2018
Nuclei: CVE-2018-1335 · Feb 27, 2021
ExploitDB: EDB-47208 · Aug 5, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9397 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tika:tika-coreFixed in: 1.18
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.4.8Fixed in: tika-core
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5Fixed in: tika

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9r24-gp44-h3pmhigh

Command injection in org.apache.tika:tika-core

Oct 17, 2018
redhatCVE-2018-1335Important

tika: Command injection in tika-server can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted headers

Apr 25, 2018

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/153864/Apache-Tika-1.17-Header-Command-Injection.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3140
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b3ed4432380af767effd4c6f27665cc7b2686acccbefeb9f55851dca%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
exploit-db.com / exploits/46540
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/104001
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry