CVE-2018-1324
mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.037 · 90 %ileexploit · PoCEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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- tafamace/CVE-2018-1324tafamace/CVE-2018-1324PoC · poc_in_github
affected products (16)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support3.2.7 → 3.7.4osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay/com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support
- Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress1.11 → 1.16osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.commons/commons-compress
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- GHSA-h436-432x-8fvxApache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop2019-03-14ghsa · osvUS
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.
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references (23)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103490cnnvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040549cnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd@%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5532dc8d5456b5151e8c286801e2e5769f5c04118b29c3b5d13ea387@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2022011837cnnvd
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.htmlcnnvd
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