CVE-2021-35515 (High) detected in commons-compress-1.20.jar

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CVE-2021-35515 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - commons-compress-1.20.jar

Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE, DEFLATE64, LZ4, Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.

Library home page: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/

Path to dependency file: Code2Graph/client/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /tmp/ws-ua_20210816014708_PTEZBB/downloadResource_SMPNAH/20210816015442/commons-compress-1.20.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• client-1.0 (Root Library)
  • diff-1.0
    • gumtree-spoon-ast-diff-1.34.jar
      • spoon-core-9.0.0.jar
        • ❌ commons-compress-1.20.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 1321c443be3c5e8f97221bdffb8d95eda0aa3c94

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package.

Publish Date: 2021-07-13

URL: CVE-2021-35515

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

Release Date: 2021-07-13

Fix Resolution: org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.21

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