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CVE-2021-36374

ant: excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted ZIP archive or a derived formats

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 13, 2021

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Statement

OpenShift Container Platform 4 (OCP) ships affected version of Apache Ant in the ose-metering-hive container, however the metering operator is deprecated since 4.6[1]. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates and hence ose-metering-hive container has been marked as 'will not fix'.

[1] https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/metering/metering-about-metering.html

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling