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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-36090

This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 12.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
12.95% probability · 96th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-130
Affected
apache/commons compress · oracle/banking apis · oracle/banking digital experience · oracle/banking enterprise default management · oracle/banking party management · oracle/banking payments · oracle/banking platform · oracle/banking trade finance · oracle/banking treasury management · oracle/business process management suite · oracle/commerce guided search · oracle/communications billing and revenue management · oracle/communications cloud native core automated test suite · oracle/communications cloud native core service communication proxy · oracle/communications cloud native core unified data repository · oracle/communications diameter intelligence hub · oracle/communications element manager · oracle/communications session report manager · oracle/communications session route manager · oracle/communications unified inventory management · +14 more
Source
security@apache.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.