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High 7.5HealthcarePublished Jul 13, 2021
CVE-2021-36090Apache Commons Compress 1.0 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
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It affects Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress and 34 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.95%, higher than 96% of scored CVEs. That is high: schedule it on your emergency patch path.
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When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-130
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 12.95% (percentile 96)
- Assigned by
- apache
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress apache_software_foundation:apache_commons_compress (from the name) | from Apache Commons Compress through 1.20 | CNA record |
apache commons_compress apache:commons_compress | from 1.0 before 1.21 | NVD |
oracle banking_apis oracle:banking_apis | from 18.1 through 18.3; 19.1; 19.2; 20.1; 21.1 | NVD |
oracle banking_digital_experience oracle:banking_digital_experience | from 18.1 through 18.3; 19.1; 19.2; 20.1; 21.1 | NVD |
oracle banking_enterprise_default_management oracle:banking_enterprise_default_management | 2.7.0 | NVD |
oracle banking_party_management oracle:banking_party_management | 2.7.0 | NVD |
oracle banking_payments oracle:banking_payments | 14.5 | NVD |
oracle banking_platform oracle:banking_platform | 2.6.2; 2.7.1; 2.9.0; 2.12.0 | NVD |
oracle banking_trade_finance oracle:banking_trade_finance | 14.5 | NVD |
oracle banking_treasury_management oracle:banking_treasury_management | 14.5 | NVD |
oracle business_process_management_suite oracle:business_process_management_suite | 12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 | NVD |
oracle commerce_guided_search oracle:commerce_guided_search | 11.3.2 | NVD |
oracle communications_billing_and_revenue_management oracle:communications_billing_and_revenue_management | 12.0.0.4 | NVD |
oracle communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite | 1.8.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_cloud_native_core_service_communication_proxy oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_service_communication_proxy | 1.14.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_cloud_native_core_unified_data_repository oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_unified_data_repository | 1.14.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_diameter_intelligence_hub oracle:communications_diameter_intelligence_hub | from 8.0.0 through 8.2.3; 8.2.3 | NVD |
oracle communications_element_manager oracle:communications_element_manager | from 8.2.0 through 8.2.4.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_session_report_manager oracle:communications_session_report_manager | from 8.2.0 through 8.2.5.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_session_route_manager oracle:communications_session_route_manager | from 8.0.0 through 8.2.5.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_unified_inventory_management oracle:communications_unified_inventory_management | 7.4.0; 7.4.1; 7.4.2; 7.5.0 | NVD |
oracle financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure | from 8.0.6 through 8.1.1 | NVD |
oracle financial_services_crime_and_compliance_management_studio oracle:financial_services_crime_and_compliance_management_studio | 8.0.8.2.0; 8.0.8.3.0 | NVD |
oracle financial_services_enterprise_case_management oracle:financial_services_enterprise_case_management | all versions; 8.0.7.2.0; 8.0.8.1.0 | NVD |
oracle flexcube_universal_banking oracle:flexcube_universal_banking | from 14.0.0 through 14.3.0; 12.4; 14.5 | NVD |
oracle healthcare_data_repository oracle:healthcare_data_repository | 8.1.0 | NVD |
oracle insurance_policy_administration oracle:insurance_policy_administration | 11.0.2; 11.1.0; 11.2.8; 11.3.0; 11.3.1 | NVD |
oracle peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools | 8.57; 8.58; 8.59 | NVD |
oracle primavera_gateway oracle:primavera_gateway | from 17.12.0 through 17.12.11; from 18.8.0 through 18.8.12; from 19.12.0 through 19.12.11; from 20.12.0 through 20.12.7 | NVD |
oracle primavera_unifier oracle:primavera_unifier | from 17.7 through 17.12; 18.8; 19.12; 20.12 | NVD |
oracle utilities_testing_accelerator oracle:utilities_testing_accelerator | 6.0.0.1.1; 6.0.0.2.2; 6.0.0.3.1 | NVD |
oracle webcenter_portal oracle:webcenter_portal | 12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 | NVD |
oracle communications_messaging_server oracle:communications_messaging_server | 8.1 | NVD |
netapp active_iq_unified_manager netapp:active_iq_unified_manager | all versions; all versions; all versions | NVD |
netapp oncommand_insight netapp:oncommand_insight | all versions | NVD |
References
- https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.htmlx-refsource-misc, vendor-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc4134026d7d7b053d4f9f2205531122732405012c8804fd850a9b26f%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3Ex-refsource-misc, vendor-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/4mailing-list, x-refsource-mlist, third-party-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9a23d4dbf4e34d498664080bff59f2893b855eb16dae33e4aa92fa53%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdd5412a5b9a25aed2a02c3317052d38a97128314d50bc1ed36e81d38%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/6mailing-list, x-refsource-mlist, third-party-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5fa2ee61828fa2e42361b58468717e84902dd71c4aea8dc0b865df7%40%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
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