CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-22916
Medium (5.5) in tukaani xz. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is often a reasonable size increase.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- tukaani:xz
References
- http://web.archive.org/web/20230918084612/https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234987
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214590
- https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/61