{"id":"CVE-2026-66755","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-66755","EUVD-2026-51277","GHSA-vrmh-37mg-28h3","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66755","USN-8717-1"],"status":"published","title":"Apache Tika: Arbitrary Local File Read in ISArchiveParser","description":"Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 through 3.3.1, and 4.0.0-alpha-1, allows an attacker who can place files in a directory that the application subsequently parses to read arbitrary files accessible to the Tika process and have their contents emitted into the extracted text output, via a \"Study Assay File Name\" value in the ISA-Tab investigation file that traverses outside the dataset directory. 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Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.3.2 or 4.0.0-beta-1, which fixes this issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-30T20:18:00Z","modified":"2026-10-17T13:00:35.390565249Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.9,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N","level":"medium"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:56:53.710209Z"},{"id":"USN-8717-1","title":"tika vulnerability","description":"It was discovered that Apache Tika's ISA-Tab parser incorrectly handled\nfile path resolution. An attacker who could place files in a directory that\nTika subsequently parses could use this issue to read arbitrary files \naccessible to the Tika process and have their contents emitted into the \nextracted text output.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-03T10:59:29Z","modified":"2026-09-03T22:56:55.322403173Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:26.907654Z"}]}}