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CVE-2018-1338

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1338 describes an infinite loop vulnerability in Apache Tika's BPGParser, affecting versions prior to 1.18, which can be triggered by a specially crafted file. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), leading to a denial of service (A:H) without impacting confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

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

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tika:tika-coreFixed in: 1.18
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7Fixed in: camel-tika
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6Fixed in: tika-core
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5Fixed in: tika

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-5mf7-26mw-3rqrmedium

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core

Oct 17, 2018
redhatCVE-2018-1338Moderate

tika: Infinite loop in BPGParser can allow remote attacker to cause a denial of service

Apr 25, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2669
Third Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E