CVE-2024-36114
Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
8.6
Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
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.
- Record
CVE-2024-36114- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-1996
8.6
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.
- Record
EUVD-2024-1996- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
8.6
Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
Summary
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).
Details
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.
Impact
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.
- Record
GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
8.6
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.
- Record
CVE-2024-36114- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
8.6
Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
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.
- Record
CVE-2024-36114- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
8.6
Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
Summary
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).
Details
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.
Impact
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.
- Record
GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVRHLW-2026-5d649d9a9a6d6709
8.6
Lightwell Security Advisory: aircompressor 0.26.0.rhlw-00002
Red Hat Lightwell has released io.airlift:aircompressor 0.26.0.rhlw-00002 with backported fixes for CVE-2024-36114 and CVE-2025-67721.
CVE-2024-36114: Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor
CVE-2025-67721: Aircompressor's Snappy and LZ4 Java-based decompressor implementation can leak information from reused output buffer
This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for io.airlift:aircompressor 0.26.0 from Maven Central.
- Record
RHLW-2026-5d649d9a9a6d6709- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-06
OSVCLSA-2026-1788349507 No score
TuxCare security update for io.airlift:aircompressor (1 CVE)
TuxCare rebuilt io.airlift:aircompressor to address 1 CVE. Fixed in 0.20-tuxcare.1.
- Record
CLSA-2026-1788349507- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVCLSA-2026-1788757894 No score
TuxCare security update for io.airlift:aircompressor (1 CVE)
TuxCare rebuilt io.airlift:aircompressor to address 1 CVE. Fixed in 0.21-tuxcare.1.
- Record
CLSA-2026-1788757894- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVCLSA-2026-1788757897 No score
TuxCare security update for io.airlift:aircompressor (1 CVE)
TuxCare rebuilt io.airlift:aircompressor to address 1 CVE. Fixed in 0.8-tuxcare.1.
- Record
CLSA-2026-1788757897- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVCLSA-2026-1788757903 No score
TuxCare security update for io.airlift:aircompressor (1 CVE)
TuxCare rebuilt io.airlift:aircompressor to address 1 CVE. Fixed in 0.10-tuxcare.1.
- Record
CLSA-2026-1788757903- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
io.airlift:aircompressorMaven |
before 0.27 | 0.27 |
io.airlift:aircompressorTuxCare:Maven |
0.20 up to 0.20-tuxcare.1 | 0.20-tuxcare.1 |
io.airlift:aircompressorTuxCare:Maven |
0.21 up to 0.21-tuxcare.1 | 0.21-tuxcare.1 |
io.airlift:aircompressorTuxCare:Maven |
0.8 up to 0.8-tuxcare.1 | 0.8-tuxcare.1 |
io.airlift:aircompressorTuxCare:Maven |
0.10 up to 0.10-tuxcare.1 | 0.10-tuxcare.1 |
io.airlift:aircompressorMaven |
before 0.27, plus listed versions 0.100.110.120.130.14 Show 19 moreShow less0.150.160.170.180.190.200.210.220.230.240.250.260.30.40.50.60.70.80.9 |
0.27 |
io.airlift:aircompressorRed Hat Lightwell:Maven From an advisory covering 2 CVEs |
before 0.26.0.rhlw-00002, plus listed versions 0.100.110.120.130.14 Show 20 moreShow less0.150.160.170.180.190.200.210.220.230.240.250.260.26.00.30.40.50.60.70.80.9 |
0.26.0.rhlw-00002 |
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PoC in GitHub | SerpstatGlobal/ClickHouse-Native-JDBC | 2026-09-08 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, aliases, facts, references | OSV | |
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2024-36114 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.6) in Airlift Aircompressor, published May 29, 2024. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.50%, the 43rd percentile. Fixed in io.airlift:aircompressor 0.27.
References
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/security/advisories/GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/15e68df9eb0c2bfde7f796231ee7cd1982965071
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/2cea90a45534f9aacbb77426fb64e975504dee6e
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/cf66151541edb062ea88b6f3baab3f95e48b7b7f
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/d01ecb779375a092d00e224abe7869cdf49ddc3e
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36114
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github.com/advisories/GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/36xxx/CVE-2024-36114.json
github.com/airlift/aircompressor
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/67xxx/CVE-2025-67721.json
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/security/advisories/GHSA-vx9q-rhv9-3jvg
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67721
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/f2b489b398779b40c1ee29ddb11d7edef54ddc15
github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/ff12c4d5757c9d6d1de3d39a10402f1f84f9b765
github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx9q-rhv9-3jvg