CVE-2021-36374

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    CVE-2021-36374

    Published: 14 Jul 2021Last Modified: 25 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r27919fd4db07c487239c1d9771f480d89ce5ee2750aa9447309b709a%40%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r544c9e8487431768465b8b2d13982c75123109bd816acf839d46010d%40%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad36f470647c5a7c02dd78c9973356d2840766d132b597b6444e373a%40%3Cnotifications.groovy.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4bb79751a02889623195715925e4fd8932dd3c97e0ade91395a96c6%40%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdd5412a5b9a25aed2a02c3317052d38a97128314d50bc1ed36e81d38%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210819-0007/, https://ant.apache.org/security.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b47c505fa7563e9b0ea1e4667ae8f2f7aed3b007
    Fixed -ea698c4543e319b05761a0fcba0c7e9f6cae3b96

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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