CVE-2021-35517 (High) detected in commons-compress-1.12.jar
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CVE-2021-35517 - High Severity Vulnerability
Vulnerable Library - commons-compress-1.12.jar
Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
Path to dependency file: /build.gradle
Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.commons/commons-compress/1.12/84caa68576e345eb5e7ae61a0e5a9229eb100d7b/commons-compress-1.12.jar
Dependency Hierarchy:
- apkanalyzer-27.1.1.jar (Root Library)
- sdk-common-27.1.1.jar
- sdklib-27.1.1.jar
- ❌ commons-compress-1.12.jar (Vulnerable Library)
- sdklib-27.1.1.jar
- sdk-common-27.1.1.jar
Found in base branch: main
Vulnerability Details
When reading a specially crafted TAR 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' tar package.
Publish Date: 2021-07-13
URL: CVE-2021-35517
CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)
Base Score Metrics:
- Exploitability Metrics:
- Attack Vector: Network
- Attack Complexity: Low
- Privileges Required: None
- User Interaction: None
- Scope: Unchanged
- Impact Metrics:
- Confidentiality Impact: None
- Integrity Impact: None
- Availability Impact: High
Suggested Fix
Type: Upgrade version
Origin: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
Release Date: 2021-07-13
Fix Resolution: org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.21
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