Vulnerability CVE-2019-12402


Published: 2019-08-30

Description:
The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Commons compress 

 References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/308cc15f1f1dc53e97046fddbac240e6cd16de89a2746cf257be7f5b@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E

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