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CVE-2018-1339

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1339 describes an infinite loop vulnerability in Apache Tika's ChmParser, affecting versions prior to 1.18. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered by a specially crafted file, leading to a denial of service (availability impact) on the affected system. While the attack requires user interaction (e.g., opening the malicious file), 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
2.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0265 is in the 93rd 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-parsersFixed 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-p699-3wgc-7h72medium

org.apache.tika:tika-parsers has an Infinite Loop vulnerability

Oct 17, 2018
redhatCVE-2018-1339Moderate

tika: Infinite loop in ChmParser 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/4d2cb5c819401bb075e2a1130e0d14f0404a136541a6f91da0225828%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E