CVE-2018-1324

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 16, 2018 at 01:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:51 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsWebLogic ServerMySQL ClusterCommons Compress

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.11 ≤ v ≤ 1.15
v ≤ 7.4.347.5.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.5.247.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.6.208.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0.27

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835

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