CVE-2018-17197

A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.

Published: 2018-12-24 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-17197 is rated Moderate Risk (56.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.11%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-17197

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-13 3.05% 3.11% +0.06%
2 2026-01-29 1.27% 3.05% +1.77%
3 2026-01-14 — 1.27% —

Full EPSS history (24 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-17197

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-17197

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2018-17197

GHSA-3448-vfvv-xp9g · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Apache Tika Denial of Service due to Infinite Loop in Tika's SQLite3Parser

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-17197

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2018-17197 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tika), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bullseye, sid): resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17197
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17197
suse medium CVE-2018-17197 severity moderate: SUSE including 318 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 327 product×package rows across 5 product lines (SUSE Manager Proxy 3.1, SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2, … (5 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 96. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17197/
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-17197 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tika), 19 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 8, not-affected 7, needs-triage 3, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17197

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-17197

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache tika >= 1.8, <= 1.19.1 cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-17197

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