CVE-2021-35517
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWEs
- CWE-770, CWE-130
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:commons_compress
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:oncommand_insight
- oracle:banking_apis
- oracle:banking_digital_experience
- oracle:banking_enterprise_default_management
- oracle:banking_party_management
- oracle:banking_payments
- oracle:banking_trade_finance
- oracle:banking_treasury_management
- oracle:business_process_management_suite
- oracle:commerce_guided_search
- oracle:communications_billing_and_revenue_management
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_service_communication_proxy
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_unified_data_repository
- oracle:communications_diameter_intelligence_hub
- oracle:communications_messaging_server
- oracle:communications_session_route_manager
- oracle:financial_services_crime_and_compliance_management_studio
- oracle:financial_services_enterprise_case_management
- oracle:flexcube_universal_banking
- oracle:healthcare_data_repository
- oracle:insurance_policy_administration
- oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools
- oracle:primavera_unifier
- oracle:utilities_testing_accelerator
- oracle:webcenter_portal
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34 | Maven | org.apache.commons:commons-compress | <1.21 | 1.21 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5
- https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r31f75743ac173b0a606f8ea6ea53f351f386c44e7bcf78ae04007c29%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E