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CVE-2021-36090

Public on 2021-07-13
Modified on 2023-01-27
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2023 apache-commons-compress 2025-02-11 23:13 ALAS2023-2025-841
Amazon Linux 2 - Core apache-commons-compress 2024-08-14 19:06 ALAS2-2024-2627

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-36090 Mitre: CVE-2021-36090 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity