CVE-2021-36373GHSA-Q5R4-CFPX-H6FH
Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 1.9.16, 1.10.11
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
Timeline
- CVE published
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Ant
From Apache Ant 1.9.x · through 1.9.15; From Apache Ant 1.10.x · through 1.10.10
- org.apache.ant:antMaven
fixed in 1.9.16
- org.apache.ant:antMaven
From 1.10.0 · fixed in 1.10.11
References 11
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