CVE-2018-11771 Medium Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2018-11771 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - commons-compress-1.9.jar

Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.

path: /root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.9/commons-compress-1.9.jar

Library home page: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/

Dependency Hierarchy:

• webjars-locator-0.32.jar (Root Library)
  • webjars-locator-core-0.30.jar
    • ❌ commons-compress-1.9.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Publish Date: 2018-08-16

URL: CVE-2018-11771

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041503

Fix Resolution: The vendor has issued a fix (1.18).

The vendor advisory is available at:

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html#Apache_Commons_Compress_Security_Vulnerabilities

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