CVE-2018-1324: Apache Commons Compress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Commons Compress: from 1.11, up to and including 1.15
• Oracle MySQL Cluster: up to and including 7.4.34; from 7.5.0, up to and including 7.5.24; from 7.6.0, up to and including 7.6.20; from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.0.27
• Oracle WebLogic Server: version 14.1.1.0.0 only

Published 2018-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.