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Security Bulletin: Apache Commons Compress Denial of Service Vulnerability Affects IBM Sterling Control Center (CVE-2021-35515)

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Summary

When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-35515
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Control Center6.2.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

 Product

VRMF

iFix

Remediation

 IBM Sterling Control Center

 6.2.0.0

 iFix11

Fix Central - 6.2.0.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

16 Nov 2021: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 November 2021

Initial Publish date:
16 November 2021

UID

ibm16516778