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GHSA-mc84-pj99-q6hh

GitHub Security Advisory

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.21)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-mc84-pj99-q6hh
Published
August 2, 2021 4:55 PM
Last Modified
February 8, 2022 9:03 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.apache.commons:commons-compress
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 27, 2025 6:35 AM

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