VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-37136

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability5.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-19
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

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references