CVE-2018-1324
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 1.7%Apache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop
Published: 3/14/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/libcommons-compress-javafrom 0, < 1.13-2
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support>= 3.2.7, < 3.7.4
- Maven/io.takari:commons-compress
- Maven/org.apache.commons:commons-compress>= 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 |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1324
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1324
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/commons-compress
- WEBhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05534.pdf
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/commons-compress/commit/2a2f1dc48e22a34ddb72321a4db211da91aa933b
- WEBhttps://github.com/jensdietrich/xshady-release/tree/main/CVE-2018-1324
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd@%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5532dc8d5456b5151e8c286801e2e5769f5c04118b29c3b5d13ea387@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E