CVE-2018-1324
A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons Compress
- affected 1.11 to 1.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.supportGHSA-h436-432x-8fvx (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenio.takari:commons-compressGHSA-h436-432x-8fvx (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-compressGHSA-h436-432x-8fvx (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- 1040549 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [dev] 20180316 [CVE-2018-1324] Apache Commons Compress denial of service vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 103490 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [pulsar-commits] 20190416 [GitHub] [pulsar] one70six opened a new issue #4057: Security Vulnerabilities - Black Duck Scan - Pulsar v.2.3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [creadur-dev] 20190530 [Discuss] RAT-244 - update to language level 1.7 due to CVE issues in RAT (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [beam-issues] 20200421 [jira] [Closed] (BEAM-3873) Current version of commons-compress is DOS vulnerable CVE-2018-1324 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0384 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h436-432x-8fvx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-1324)Record last updated .