Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.apache.ant:ant package, versions [1.9.0,1.9.16) [1.10.0,1.10.11)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (44th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEANT-5597836
- published 14 Jul 2021
- disclosed 14 Jul 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 14 Jul 2021
CVE-2021-36373 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.ant:ant to version 1.9.16, 1.10.11 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.ant:ant is a software tool for automating software build processes which originated from the Apache Tomcat project in early 2000.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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.
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