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CVE-2021-36373
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-07-14T07:15:08.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T03:58:46.010

Summary

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.

Affected products

apache — ant

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