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Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Apache Ant

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 2, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 1, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.ant:ant (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.11
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.16

Patched versions

1.10.11
1.9.16

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 14, 2021
Reviewed Jul 15, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 2, 2021
Last updated Mar 1, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.075%
(33rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-36374

GHSA ID

GHSA-5v34-g2px-j4fw

Source code

No known source code
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