CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
30.5%
The Apache Commons Compress library is prone to a denial of
service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:commons_compress";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.104915");
script_version("2023-10-12T05:05:32+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-12 05:05:32 +0000 (Thu, 12 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-09-14 12:01:53 +0000 (Thu, 14 Sep 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.9");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-09-19 13:43:00 +0000 (Tue, 19 Sep 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-42503");
# nb: No backports seems to exist yet, we might need to lower this QoD if any will be published
# later.
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Apache Commons Compress 1.22 < 1.24.0 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_apache_commons_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("apache/commons/compress/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The Apache Commons Compress library is prone to a denial of
service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A third party can create a malformed TAR file by manipulating
file modification times headers, which when parsed with Apache Commons Compress, will cause a
denial of service issue via CPU consumption.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Apache Commons FileUpload versions starting from 1.22 and prior
to 1.24.0.
Note: Only applications using CompressorStreamFactory class (with auto-detection of file types),
TarArchiveInputStream and TarFile classes to parse TAR files are impacted. Since this code was
introduced in v1.22, only that version and later versions are impacted.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.24.0 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.apache.org/thread/5xwcyr600mn074vgxq92tjssrchmc93c");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security.html");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "1.22", test_version_up: "1.24.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.24.0", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
30.5%