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CVE-2012-2098

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 12.61% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2012-06-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

External Security References
packetstormsecurity.org ↗

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CVE
CVE-2012-2098
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
12.61%
Apache

Original NVD Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.