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CVE-2023-42503— Apache Commons Compress: Denial of service via CPU consumption for malformed TAR file

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Affected
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
Recommended action
Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Apache Commons Compress是美国阿帕奇(Apache)基金会的一个用于处理压缩文件的库。 Apache Commons Compress 1.22 到 1.24.0版本存在资源管理错误漏洞,该漏洞源于在TAR 解析过程中存在不正确的输入验证、不受控制的资源消耗问题。

AI Predicted 5.3 Difficulty: Easy EPSS 0.60% · P47

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T1496 · Resource Hijacking
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Vulnerability Title
Apache Commons Compress: Denial of service via CPU consumption for malformed TAR file
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Improper Input Validation, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress in TAR parsing.This issue affects Apache Commons Compress: from 1.22 before 1.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.24.0, which fixes the issue. A third party can create a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed with Apache Commons Compress, will cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption. In version 1.22 of Apache Commons Compress, support was added for file modification times with higher precision (issue # COMPRESS-612 [1]). The format for the PAX extended headers carrying this data consists of two numbers separated by a period [2], indicating seconds and subsecond precision (for example “1647221103.5998539”). The impacted fields are “atime”, “ctime”, “mtime” and “LIBARCHIVE.creationtime”. No input validation is performed prior to the parsing of header values. Parsing of these numbers uses the BigDecimal [3] class from the JDK which has a publicly known algorithmic complexity issue when doing operations on large numbers, causing denial of service (see issue # JDK-6560193 [4]). A third party can manipulate file time headers in a TAR file by placing a number with a very long fraction (300,000 digits) or a number with exponent notation (such as “9e9999999”) within a file modification time header, and the parsing of files with these headers will take hours instead of seconds, leading to a denial of service via exhaustion of CPU resources. This issue is similar to CVE-2012-2098 [5]. [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-612 [2]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_05 [3]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html [4]: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-6560193 [5]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2098 Only applications using CompressorStreamFactory class (with auto-detection of file types), TarArchiveInputStream and TarFile classes to parse TAR files are impacted. Since this code was introduced in v1.22, only that version and later versions are impacted.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
输入验证不恰当
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Apache Commons Compress 资源管理错误漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Apache Commons Compress是美国阿帕奇(Apache)基金会的一个用于处理压缩文件的库。 Apache Commons Compress 1.22 到 1.24.0版本存在资源管理错误漏洞,该漏洞源于在TAR 解析过程中存在不正确的输入验证、不受控制的资源消耗问题。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress 1.22 ~ 1.24.0 -

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