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CVE-2021-37136

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 5.65% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-10-19 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2021-37136
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.65%

Original NVD Description

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack