CVE-2026-85249: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Tika component
CVE-2026-85249 key facts
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Highest advisory rating
- Medium
- CVSS base score
- 6.5 (Apache), 6.5 (Red Hat)
- Weakness
- CWE-915
- Fixed releases
- Apache: 4.18.5, 4.22.1
- Red Hat: 4.23.0, 4.18, 4.18.5, 4.22, 4.22.1
- Listed by VulniPulse
- Record changed
Ratings, versions and fixes are quoted from the vendor advisories that cover only CVE-2026-85249; each belongs to its advisory, not to every product listed. How records are collected and checked.
How do I fix CVE-2026-85249?
Upgrade to a fixed release named by the vendor:
- Apache: 4.18.5, 4.22.1
- Red Hat: 4.23.0, 4.18, 4.18.5, 4.22, 4.22.1
- Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. (Apache)
- Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5. (Apache)
Vendor advisories for CVE-2026-85249
Apache
1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium6.5
Medium [CVE-2026-85249] Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Tika component
CVE-2026-85249Source published Source updated
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Tika component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. The Tika producer mapped every metadata key parsed out of the submitted document onto the Exchange as a header, with no filter applied. Document metadata is attacker-controlled content: the party that supplies the file chooses the metadata keys it carries. A crafted document could therefore set Exchange headers that the rest of the route depends on, including headers in the Camel namespace such as CamelFileName, which downstream components use to decide where content is written. The pattern is the same header-injection class as the consumer advisories published previously, reached here through parsed file content rather than through…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Apache Camel Tika
- Source-reported affected versions
- 4.0.0 before 4.18.5
- 4.19.0 before 4.22.1
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 4.18.5
- 4.22.1
- Mitigation guidance
- Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue.
- Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5.
- Users on the 4.22.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.22.1.
- For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, strip the Camel namespace after the Tika producer with removeHeaders("Camel*") before any component that acts on those headers.
Red Hat
1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium6.5
Medium [CVE-2026-85249] Header injection via crafted document metadata
CVE-2026-85249Source published Source updated
Header injection via crafted document metadata. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.5). Weakness: CWE-915. Affected product named by the advisory: Red Hat Fuse 7.
- Related products — impact not confirmed
- Red Hat Fuse 7
- Source-reported affected versions
- < 4.0.0
- < 4.18.5
- < 4.19.0
- < 4.22.1
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 4.23.0
- 4.18
- 4.18.5
- 4.22
1 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
References
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