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SCA: security update for org.apache.commons:commons-compress (GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420624

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2021-35517)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420624

Version: Revision 1.21

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-35517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35517