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SCA: security update for org.apache.commons:commons-compress (GHSA-hrmr-f5m6-m9pq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421998

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2018-11771)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrmr-f5m6-m9pq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421998

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11771

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11771

BID: 105139

cwe: CWE-835