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CVE-2021-36090

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Date: July 13, 2021

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Language: Java

Severity Score

7.5

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Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-36090

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

CWE-130

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.21

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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