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CVE-2021-36374

Apache Ant ZIP, and ZIP based, archive denial of service vulerability

Published: Jul 14, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-130
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
2.6%
Top 16.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-130NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

antapache
Mixed
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
agile engineering data managementoracle
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / erp
agile plmoracle
On-premDatabase
Databases / data-warehouse-analytics
banking trade financeoracle
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
banking treasury managementoracle
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / erp
apacheoss-projectUSWeb & CMS Pluginsaka apache http server, apache httpd
oraclecommercialUSDatabasesaka oracle corp.
and 35 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

References

https://ant.apache.org/security.html
ant.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r27919fd4db07c487239c1d9771f480d89ce5ee2750aa9447309b709a%40%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r544c9e8487431768465b8b2d13982c75123109bd816acf839d46010d%40%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
and 17 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jul 14, 2021
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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