Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Apache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
maven	io.takari:commons-compress	=1.12	-
debian 13	libcommons-compress-java	>=0 <1.13-2	1.13-2
debian 14	libcommons-compress-java	>=0 <1.13-2	1.13-2
maven	org.apache.commons:commons-compress	>=1.11 <1.16	1.16
maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.support	>=3.2.7 <3.7.4	3.7.4
debian 12	libcommons-compress-java	>=0 <1.13-2	1.13-2

Aliases

1. CVE-2018-13242. NVD-2018-13243. OSV-2018-13244. OSV-DEBIAN-2018-13245. GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx6. GCVE-2018-13247. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2018-1324

References

1. https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/commit/2a2f1dc48e22a34ddb72321a4db211da91aa933b2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05534.pdf3. https://github.com/jensdietrich/xshady-release/tree/main/CVE-2018-13244. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E5. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd@%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E6. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E7. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5532dc8d5456b5151e8c286801e2e5769f5c04118b29c3b5d13ea387@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E8. https://github.com/tafamace/CVE-2018-1324

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