CVE-2021-35517Not scoredCWE-130

CVE-2021-35517: Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability

Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons Compress

Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)

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10.6%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

95th percentile

050100

Higher than 95% of scored CVEs

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DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Affected products1

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Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons Compressfrom 1.1 before Apache Commons Compress*

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Exploitation: Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency · Memory Corruption
Vendor: Apache Software Foundation
Published: July 2021
Band: Likely to be exploited (10% or more), July 2021

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