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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:29 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-1339

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Apr 2018, 21:29 UTC

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

osv:CVE-2018-1339
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1339",
  "method": "structured",
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    "products": [],
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          ],
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.002785073Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d2cb5c819401bb075e2a1130e0d14f0404a136541a6f91da0225828%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438051,
  "published_at": "2018-04-25T21:29:00.42+00:00"
}