CVE-2021-35517EPSS p95.7%

CVE-2021-35517CVE-2021-35517

apache / commons_compress

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.

Scoring

CVSS 7.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS10.61% probability of exploitation · percentile 95.7% · 2026-10-10T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-10-08
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.