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CVE-2021-36090

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/4

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-april-2022-critical-patch-update-addresses-221-cves

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-october-2021-critical-patch-update-addresses-231-cves

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfba19167efc785ad3561e7ef29f340d65ac8f0d897aed00e0731e742%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf93b6bb267580e01deb7f3696f7eaca00a290c66189a658cf7230a1a%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf3f0a09fee197168a813966c5816157f6c600a47313a0d6813148ea6%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2f4d7940371a7c7c5b679f50e28fc7fcc82cd00670ced87e013ac88%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdd5412a5b9a25aed2a02c3317052d38a97128314d50bc1ed36e81d38%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd4332baaf6debd03d60deb7ec93bee49e5fdbe958cb6800dff7fb00e%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc7df4c2f0bbe2028a1498a46d322c91184f7a369e3e4c57d9518cacf%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc4134026d7d7b053d4f9f2205531122732405012c8804fd850a9b26f%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbe91c512c5385181149ab087b6c909825d34299f5c491c6482a2ed57%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbbf42642c3e4167788a7c13763d192ee049604d099681f765385d99d%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rba65ed5ddb0586f5b12598f55ec7db3633e7b7fede60466367fbf86a%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb7adf3e55359819e77230b4586521e5c6874ce5ed93384bdc14d6aee%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb6e1fa80d34e5ada45f72655d84bfd90db0ca44ef19236a49198c88c%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5fa2ee61828fa2e42361b58468717e84902dd71c4aea8dc0b865df7%40%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb064d705fdfa44b5dae4c366b369ef6597951083196321773b983e71%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/racd0c0381c8404f298b226cd9db2eaae965b14c9c568224aa3f437ae%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rab292091eadd1ecc63c516e9541a7f241091cf2e652b8185a6059945%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f54c0caa462267e0cc68b49f141e91432b36b23348d18c65bd0d040%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9a23d4dbf4e34d498664080bff59f2893b855eb16dae33e4aa92fa53%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75ffc7a461e7e7ae77690fa75bd47bb71365c732e0fbcc44da4f8ff5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67ef3c07fe3b8c1b02d48012149d280ad6da8e4cec253b527520fb2b%40%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54049b66afbca766b6763c7531e9fe7a20293a112bcb65462a134949%40%3Ccommits.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4f03c5de923e3f2a8c316248681258125140514ef3307bfe1538e1ab%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3227b1287e5bd8db6523b862c22676b046ad8f4fc96433225f46a2bd%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r25f4c44616045085bc3cf901bb7e68e445eee53d1966fc08998fc456%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0e87177f8e78b4ee453cd4d3d8f4ddec6f10d2c27707dd71e12cafc9%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-07-13

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00279