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CVE-2018-1324

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1324 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache Commons Compress versions 1.11 to 1.15, as well as Oracle and Apache products that bundle it, such as MySQL Cluster and WebLogic Server. An attacker can craft a malicious ZIP archive to trigger an infinite loop in the extra field parser, leading to resource exhaustion. The vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.11, <= 1.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_compress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 7.4.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.5.0, <= 7.5.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.6.0, <= 7.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0368 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.commons:commons-compressFixed in: 1.16
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.tools.bundle.supportFixed in: 3.7.4
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6Fixed in: commons-compress
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: opendaylight
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: opendaylight
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-maven35-apache-commons-compress

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-h436-432x-8fvxmedium

Apache Commons Compress vulnerable to denial of service due to infinite loop

Mar 14, 2019
redhatCVE-2018-1324Moderate

apache-commons-compress: Infinite loop via extra field parser in ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes

Mar 16, 2018

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/1c7b6df6d1c5c8583518a0afa017782924918e4d6acfaf23ed5b2089%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b8ef29df0f1d55aa741170748352ae8e425c7b1d286b2f257711a2dd%40%3Cdev.creadur.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5532dc8d5456b5151e8c286801e2e5769f5c04118b29c3b5d13ea387%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103490
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040549
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry