CVE-2021-36374

Published Jul 14, 2021

Last updated 17 days ago

Overview

Description
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
Source
security@apache.org
NVD status
Modified
Products
ant, agile_engineering_data_management, agile_product_lifecycle_management, banking_trade_finance, banking_treasury_management, communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite, communications_cloud_native_core_binding_support_function, communications_diameter_intelligence_hub, communications_order_and_service_management, communications_unified_inventory_management, enterprise_repository, financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure, health_sciences_information_manager, insurance_policy_administration, primavera_gateway, primavera_unifier, product_lifecycle_analytics, real-time_decision_server, retail_advanced_inventory_planning, retail_back_office, retail_bulk_data_integration, retail_central_office, retail_eftlink, retail_extract_transform_and_load, retail_financial_integration, retail_integration_bus, retail_invoice_matching, retail_merchandising_system, retail_point-of-service, retail_predictive_application_server, retail_service_backbone, retail_store_inventory_management, retail_xstore_point_of_service, timesten_in-memory_database, utilities_framework, utilities_testing_accelerator

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

security@apache.org
CWE-130
nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.