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CVE-2018-1324 — A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of

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 t

CVSS
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EPSS
1.67% (top 18.10%)
CWE
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Published
2018-03-16T13:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T03:59:32.872Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Apache Software FoundationApache Commons Compress1.11 to 1.15

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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