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Denial of Service in Apache Commons Compress

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 11, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 9, 2023

Package

maven io.github.1tchy.java9modular.org.apache.commons:commons-compress (Maven)

Affected versions

= 1.18.1

Patched versions

None
maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress (Maven)
>= 1.15, < 1.19
1.19

Description

The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 30, 2019
Reviewed Sep 30, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 11, 2019
Last updated Oct 9, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.408%
(74th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-12402

GHSA ID

GHSA-53x6-4x5p-rrvv

Source code

No known source code
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