CVE-2021-35516

CVE-2021-35516: Apache Commons Compress 1.6 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Commons Compress
Weakness CWE-130
Published July 13, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

Description

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

July 13, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated