CVE-2021-35516CWE-130

Apache Commons Compress 1.6 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability

published July 13, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
12%
Percentile
96.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When reading a specially crafted 7Z 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' sevenz package.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.12365 · 96.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-130 · Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
Published
2021-07-13T07:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 JUL 07:15Z
    Apache Commons Compress 1.6 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
    cvelistv5