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TI-2024-23944 Aliases CVE-2024-36114GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4

Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor

Priority MEDIUM 44CWE-125Published · Updated

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

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00504 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed aircompressor (airlift): 0.27io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven): 0.27

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
airliftaircompressorbefore 0.270.27Patch availableCNA
—io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven)before 0.270.27Patch availableGHSA-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

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:airlift:aircompressor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——airlift
  • cpe:2.3:a:airlift:aircompressor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·airlift

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA aircompressor (airlift) Fixed in 0.27
  • Fix · GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4 io.airlift:aircompressor (Maven) Fixed in 0.27 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-36114
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4

References

  • 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