CVE-2021-35517
high-risk
Published 2021-07-13
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.
Do I need to act?
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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.5/10
High
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (20)
Commons Compress
Banking Apis
Banking Apis
Banking Apis
Banking Apis
Banking Apis
Banking Party Management
References (44)
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001/
and 24 more references
55
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
26/34 · High
Exploitability
3/34 · Minimal
Exposure
26/34 · High