CVE-2021-36373

CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Ant
Weakness CWE-130
Published July 14, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

Description

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

July 14, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated