Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
Aircompressor is a library with ports of the Snappy, LZO, LZ4, and Zstandard compression algorithms to Java. All decompressor implementations of Aircompressor (LZ4, LZO, Snappy, Zstandard) can crash the JVM for certain input, and in some cases also leak the content of other memory of the Java process (which could contain sensitive information). When decompressing certain data, the decompressors try to access memory outside the bounds of the given byte arrays or byte buffers. Because Aircompressor uses the JDK class `sun.misc.Unsafe` to speed up memory access, no additional bounds checks are performed and this has similar security consequences as out-of-bounds access in C or C++, namely it can lead to non-deterministic behavior or crash the JVM. Users should update to Aircompressor 0.27 or newer where these issues have been fixed. When decompressing data from untrusted users, this can be exploited for a denial-of-service attack by crashing the JVM, or to leak other sensitive information from the Java process. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| airlift | aircompressor | before 0.27 | 0.27 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven) | before 0.27 | 0.27 | Patch available | GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4 |
- aircompressor Vendorairlift Affected before 0.27 Fixed in 0.27 Patch available CNA
- io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 0.27 Fixed in 0.27 Patch available GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
Remediation
- Fix · CNA aircompressor (airlift) Fixed in 0.27
- Fix · GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4 io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven) Fixed in 0.27 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-36114
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/security/advisories/GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/15e68df9eb0c2bfde7f796231ee7cd1982965071
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/2cea90a45534f9aacbb77426fb64e975504dee6e
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/cf66151541edb062ea88b6f3baab3f95e48b7b7f
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/d01ecb779375a092d00e224abe7869cdf49ddc3e
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor
More airlift vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-41417 Aircompressor's Snappy and LZ4 Java-based decompressor implementation can leak information from reused output buffer CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3
Sources
- CVE-2024-36114 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-36114 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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