VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-36374

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.64%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-07-14
Last modified2026-08-25
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Weakness classification

  • security@apache.org: CWE-130
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references