The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.
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"nvd_published_at": "2019-08-30T09:15:00Z",
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2019-09-30T09:39:36Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-835"
]
}