VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-35517
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability10.61%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-07-13
Last modified2026-10-08
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package.
Weakness classification
- security@apache.org: CWE-130
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-770
Primary references
- security@apache.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@apache.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@apache.org — Vendor Advisory
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org — Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org