CVE-2012-2098

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.128 · 96 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

12.8% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

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Who says so?

6 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.15.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USprimaryCWE-310USCWE-400US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:11.7
IBM QRadar SIEMall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:-
IBM Tivoli Business Service Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:tivoli_business_service_manager:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Commons Compress≤ 1.4fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 18fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 17fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 16fstec_bduRU
apache commons compress< 1.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_compress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress< 1.4.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.commons/commons-compress

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-1738IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-10-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM InfoSphere Information Server ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, Dateien zu manipulieren oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
GHSA-6fxm-66hq-fc96Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Commons Compress2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-06-29modified 2026-06-16

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references (64)

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