VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-2098

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability12.84%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-06-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

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