CVE-2021-36373
moderate-risk
Published 2021-07-14
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.10% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10
Medium
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (20)
Ant
Communications Order And Service Management
Communications Order And Service Management
References (22)
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210819-0007/
Not Applicable
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210819-0007/
and 2 more references
46
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
0/34 · Minimal
Exposure
28/34 · Critical