CVE-2021-35517
Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
In short
A specially crafted TAR file can trick Apache Commons Compress into using excessive memory, causing the application to crash even with a tiny file. This allows attackers to disable services that process TAR archives.
Technical detail
CWE-130 vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress 1.1-1.20 where malicious TAR archives trigger unbounded memory allocation during parsing, leading to out-of-memory conditions. Attack vector is local/remote file upload; no authentication required. Impact is denial of service.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
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.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons CompressWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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