Name: CVE-2021-35515: Excessive Iteration
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-35515, CWE-834, CWE-835, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.11567

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade libcommons-compress-java	Jul 30, 2024	Jul 13, 2021
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Jul 13, 2021
Suse	—	Upgrade apache-commons-compressUpgrade apache-commons-compress-javadoc	Aug 6, 2021	Jul 13, 2021

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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