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CVE-2018-1324

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 3.68%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-03-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Apache. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2018-1324
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
3.68%
Apache

Original NVD Description

A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

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