CVE-2018-1324
Apache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.5%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-1324
To remediate CVE-2018-1324, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.13-2 or later
- —upgrade to 3.7.4 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.16 or later
Is CVE-2018-1324 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.13-2
- >= 3.2.7, < 3.7.4
- >= 1.11, < 1.16
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 |