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CVE-2024-36114

Decompressors can crash the JVM and leak memory content in Aircompressor

8.6 HighPublic exploitFix available

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

0.50%Up 0.5 points since May 30, 2024
90%50%10%1%

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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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 HighCVSS: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

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
io.airlift:aircompressor
Maven
before 0.27
0.27
io.airlift:aircompressor
TuxCare:Maven
0.20 up to 0.20-tuxcare.1
0.20-tuxcare.1
io.airlift:aircompressor
TuxCare:Maven
0.21 up to 0.21-tuxcare.1
0.21-tuxcare.1
io.airlift:aircompressor
TuxCare:Maven
0.8 up to 0.8-tuxcare.1
0.8-tuxcare.1
io.airlift:aircompressor
TuxCare:Maven
0.10 up to 0.10-tuxcare.1
0.10-tuxcare.1
io.airlift:aircompressor
Maven
before 0.27, plus listed versions
0.100.110.120.130.14
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0.150.160.170.180.190.200.210.220.230.240.250.260.30.40.50.60.70.80.9
0.27
io.airlift:aircompressor
Red Hat Lightwell:Maven
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0.26.0.rhlw-00002, plus listed versions
0.100.110.120.130.14
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0.150.160.170.180.190.200.210.220.230.240.250.260.26.00.30.40.50.60.70.80.9
0.26.0.rhlw-00002

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
PoC in GitHubSerpstatGlobal/ClickHouse-Native-JDBC2026-09-08

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, aliases, facts, referencesOSV
aliases, publishedEUVD
first indexedCVE 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

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