CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-1324
A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:commons_compress
- oracle:mysql_cluster
- oracle:weblogic_server
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx | Maven | org.apache.commons:commons-compress | >=1.11 <1.16 | 1.16 |
| GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx | Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support | >=3.2.7 <3.7.4 | 3.7.4 |
| GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx | Maven | io.takari:commons-compress | 1.12 | no fix published |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103490
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040549
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd%40%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E