Vulnerabilities found in org.apache.commons:commons-compress 1.9

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CVE-2018-11771

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.
Discovery Date: 2019-05-30
CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score: 4.3

Exploitability score: 8.6
Impact score: 2.9

Vendors

References

• [announce] 20180816 [CVE-2018-11771] Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17 denial of service vulnerability
• 1041503
• [pulsar-commits] 20190416 [GitHub] [pulsar] one70six opened a new issue #4057: Security Vulnerabilities - Black Duck Scan - Pulsar v.2.3.1
• 105139
• [creadur-dev] 20190530 [Discuss] RAT-244 - update to language level 1.7 due to CVE issues in RAT