title: Apache Commons Compress 1.0 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
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.
problem types: CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
affected:
{
product: Apache Commons Compress
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 1.20, status: affected, version: Apache Commons Compress, versionType: custom
}
workarounds: Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.21 or later.