2021-36090 | Apache Commons Compress ZIP Archive denial of service
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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Apache Commons Compress (the affected version unknown). This affects some unknown processing of the component ZIP Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress’ zip package.
The weakness was presented 07/13/2021. It is possible to read the advisory at openwall.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2021-36090 since 07/01/2021. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. Required for exploitation is a authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/16/2021). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.5
VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.5
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Partially
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Status: Not defined
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07/01/2021 CVE assigned
07/13/2021 Advisory disclosed
07/13/2021 VulDB entry created
07/16/2021 VulDB last updateVendor: https://www.apache.org/
Advisory: openwall.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2021-36090 (🔒)
Created: 07/13/2021 17:30
Updated: 07/16/2021 12:15
Changes: (2) source_cve_assigned source_cve_nvd_summary
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