CVE-2024-26308 — commons-compress
MEDIUMCVE-2024-26308 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.5) CWE-770 vulnerability in org.apache.commons:commons-compress. A fix is available for org.apache.commons:commons-compress — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Apache Commons Compress: OutOfMemoryError unpacking broken Pack200 file
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-26308.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-26308 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,333 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
org.apache.commons:commons-compressReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress.This issue affects Apache Commons Compress: from 1.21 before 1.26.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.26, which fixes the issue.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | org.apache.commons:commons-compress | ≥ 1.21&&< 1.26.0 | 1.26.0org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.apache.commons:commons-compress, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update org.apache.commons:commons-compress to 1.26.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-26308 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2024-26308 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2024-26308. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| CEQ 3.2 | commons-compress | RHSA-2024:1706 |
| Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8 | mtr/mtr-operator-bundle:1.2-18 | RHSA-2024:1923 |
| MTA-6.2-RHEL-9 | mta/mta-windup-addon-rhel9:6.2.3-2 | RHSA-2024:3989 |
| Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.0 | commons-compress | RHSA-2025:7625 |
| Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.9.SP2 | org.apache.commons/commons-compress:1.26.1.redhat-00001 | RHSA-2024:1797 |
| Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.2.11.Final | org.apache.commons/commons-compress:1.26.0.redhat-00001 | RHSA-2024:1662 |
| Red Hat Data Grid | commons-compress | RHSA-2024:1509 |
| RHINT Service Registry 2.5.11 GA | commons-compress | RHSA-2024:2833 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-26308 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2024-26308 across Maven dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.