CVE-2021-36374
Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Apache Ant
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.14%
Description
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
How to fix CVE-2021-36374
To remediate CVE-2021-36374, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.9.16 or later
Is CVE-2021-36374 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0
- >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.16
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |