VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-1324

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.66%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Primary references