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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-1324 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the versions of lucene4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Satellite 6.0 and 6.1. Red Hat Satellite 6.2 and later do not include the lucene4 component and are not affected.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/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 | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | apache-commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-apache-commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-maven35-apache-commons-compress | Affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | opendaylight | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | opendaylight | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | vertx | Not affected |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | commons-compress | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 | commons-compress | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | apache-commons-compress | Not affected |
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