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CVE-2021-29482

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.44% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-04-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2021-29482
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.44%

Original NVD Description

xz is a compression and decompression library focusing on the xz format completely written in Go. The function readUvarint used to read the xz container format may not terminate a loop provide malicous input. The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8. As a workaround users can limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for their use case. The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated.