Vulnerability

CVE-2021-36090

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CVSS Score 7.5 high

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-130

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0e87177f8e78b4ee453cd4d3d8f4ddec6f10d2c27707dd71e12cafc9@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/18808
https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/pull/17872
https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/security-vulnerabilities.html
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-36090

[CVE-2021-36090] CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

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.

See org.apache.commons/commons-compress package information