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Apache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 14, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 27, 2024

Package

maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 3.2.7, < 3.7.4

Patched versions

3.7.4
maven io.takari:commons-compress (Maven)
= 1.12
None
maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress (Maven)
>= 1.11, < 1.16
1.16

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 16, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 14, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 27, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.136%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1324

GHSA ID

GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx

Source code

Credits

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