CVE-2021-35517

mediumpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.106 · 96 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

10.6% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

81 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-770USprimaryCWE-130USCWE-130USCWE-130USCWE-770USCWE-770US

affected products (81)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
EMC Avamarall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:emc:avamar:-
Hitachi Ops Centerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hitachi:ops_center:-
IBM Operational Decision Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:operational_decision_manager:-
IBM QRadar SIEMall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:-
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.4all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:7.4
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:7.5
IBM Spectrum Protect plus 10.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:spectrum_protect:plus_10.1
NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-::~~~vmware_vsphere~~
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat FUSE <7.11.0all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform <7.1.10all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform <7.3.13all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket< 10.0.2cert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket< 8.19.25 (LTS)cert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket< 9.4.13 (LTS)cert_bundDE
Red Hat Fuse< 7.11.0cert_bundDE
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform< 7.1.10cert_bundDE
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform< 7.3.13cert_bundDE
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Compress1.1 → Apache Commons Compress*enisa_euvdEU

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advisories (6)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-0607Red Hat FUSE: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-07-07csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat FUSE ausnutzen, um vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten und Informationen zu manipulieren und seine Privilegien zu erweitern.
WID-SEC-W-2022-0699Red Hat Virtualization: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2022-07-14csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Virtualization ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder Informationen offenzulegen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-0426IBM Spectrum Protect: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-03-13csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM Spectrum Protect ausnutzen, um einen 'Denial of Service'-Zustand herbeizuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, einen 'Cross-Site-Scripting'-Angriff durchzuführen, beliebigen Code auszuführen, sensible Informationen offenzulegen und seine Privilegien zu erweitern.
WID-SEC-W-2024-1627Atlassian Confluence: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-07-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Atlassian Confluence ausnutzen, um einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen, einen Cross-Stite-Scripting-Angriff oder einen unspezifischen Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2026-0180Dell Data Protection Advisor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-01-20csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell Data Protection Advisor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und nicht näher spezifizierte Angriffe zu starten.
GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress2021-08-02ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-07-13modified 2026-06-17

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references (94)

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