GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-mc84-pj99-q6hh Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

HIGH Published 2021-08-02 Modified 2022-02-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-36090
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.commons:commons-compress
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-130
Reviewed
2021-07-14

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress: < 1.21 → fixed in 1.21

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-36090 When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness

References