CVE-2021-36090 - Denial of Service
Severity: Medium2021-08-25
Abstract
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.
Affected Products/Versions
| Product | Severity | Fixed Release Availability |
| Oxygen XML Editor 23.1 and older versions | Medium | Oxygen XML Editor 23.1 build 2021082307 |
| Oxygen XML Developer 23.1 and older versions | Medium | Oxygen XML Developer 23.1 build 2021082307 |
| Oxygen XML Author 23.1 and older versions | Medium | Oxygen XML Author 23.1 build 2021082307 |
| Oxygen Content Fusion v4.1 and older | Low | Oxygen Content Fusion 4.1.2 build 2021112414 |
Detail
CVE-2021-36090
Severity: High
CVSS Score: 7.5
The Apache Commons Compress package used by Oxygen XML software products is an affected
version mentioned in
CVE-2021-36090 vulnerability description.
Starting with version 23.1 build 2021082307, the Apache Commons Compress package was updated to version 1.21, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.
