CVE-2018-1324

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress: from 1.11 through 1.15
Oracle Corporation MySQL Cluster: through 7.4.34; from 7.5.0 through 7.5.24; from 7.6.0 through 7.6.20; from 8.0.0 through 8.0.27
Oracle WebLogic Server: 14.1.1.0.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103490
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040549
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd%40%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5532dc8d5456b5151e8c286801e2e5769f5c04118b29c3b5d13ea387%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103490
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040549
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd%40%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

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