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CVE-2019-12402

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12402 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress versions 1.15 to 1.18, also affecting products from Fedora and Oracle. An attacker can craft archive filenames to trigger an infinite loop during file name encoding, leading to service disruption. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no public exploit code available, no evidence of active exploitation, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.15, <= 1.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_compress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.1.0, <= 14.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_payments:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_platform:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1616 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.commons:commons-compressFixed in: 1.19
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.9Fixed in: apache-commons-compress
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-53x6-4x5p-rrvvhigh

Denial of Service in Apache Commons Compress

Oct 11, 2019
redhatCVE-2019-12402Important

apache-commons-compress: Infinite loop in name encoding algorithm

Aug 27, 2019

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/308cc15f1f1dc53e97046fddbac240e6cd16de89a2746cf257be7f5b%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/54cc4e9fa6b24520135f6fa4724dfb3465bc14703c7dc7e52353a0ea%40%3Ccommits.creadur.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r05cf37c1e1e662e968cfece1102fcd50fe207181fdbf2c30aadfafd3%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r21d64797914001119d2fc766b88c6da181dc2308d20f14e7a7f46117%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r233267e24519bacd0f9fb9f61a1287cb9f4bcb6e75d83f34f405c521%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r25422df9ad22fec56d9eeca3ab8bd6d66365e9f6bfe311b64730edf5%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r4363c994c8bca033569a98da9218cc0c62bb695c1e47a98e5084e5a0%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5103b1c9242c0f812ac96e524344144402cbff9b6e078d1557bc7b1e%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r590c15cebee9b8e757e2f738127a9a71e48ede647a3044c504e050a4%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5caf4fcb69d2749225391e61db7216282955204849ba94f83afe011f%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r7af60fbd8b2350d49d14e53a3ab2801998b9d1af2d6fcac60b060a53%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r972f82d821b805d04602976a9736c01b6bf218cfe0c3f48b472db488%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rcc35ab6be300365de5ff9587e0479d10d7d7c79070921837e3693162%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rd3f99d732baed459b425fb0a9e9e14f7843c9459b12037e4a9d753b5%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rdebc1830d6c09c11d5a4804ca26769dbd292d17d361c61dea50915f0%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/re13bd219dd4b651134f6357f12bd07a0344eea7518c577bbdd185265%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf5230a049d989dbfdd404b4320a265dceeeba459a4d04ec21873bd55%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QLJIK2AUOZOWXR3S5XXBUNMOF3RTHTI7
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WZB3GB7YXIOUKIOQ27VTIP6KKGJJ3CKL
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230818-0001
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / /security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Not ApplicableThird Party Advisory