Detections
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Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070-8ae / 20.1070e Security Update: apache-commons-compress (UTSA-2026-032265)
high Nessus Plugin ID 341230
Synopsis
The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-032265 advisory.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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected apache-commons-compress package.See Also
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35517
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 341230
File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-032265.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Published: 8/28/2026
Updated: 8/28/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
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
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-35517