CVE-2018-11771
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.commons:commons-compress
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
How to fix CVE-2018-11771
To remediate CVE-2018-11771, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.18-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.18 or later
Is CVE-2018-11771 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.18-1
- >= 1.7, < 1.18
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |