CVE-2021-35515
Excessive Iteration in Compress
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.2%
Description
When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package.
How to fix CVE-2021-35515
To remediate CVE-2021-35515, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libcommons-compress-java—no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.21 or later
Is CVE-2021-35515 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0
- from 0, < 1.21
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |