CVE-2019-12402 (Medium) detected in commons-compress-1.18.jar

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CVE-2019-12402 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - commons-compress-1.18.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, DEFLATE64, LZ4, Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.

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

Path to dependency file: /spring-boot/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-autoconfigure/pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar,/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.18/commons-compress-1.18.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ commons-compress-1.18.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: a1ab3868e6a7a0bead32de21ff296a637001a01c

Vulnerability Details

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.

Publish Date: 2019-08-30

URL: CVE-2019-12402

CVSS 2 Score Details (5.0)

Base Score Metrics not available

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12402

Release Date: 2019-08-30

Fix Resolution: 1.19