CVE-2021-29482denial of service in github.com/ulikunitz/xz
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 26% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/ulikunitz/xzGHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-0896 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2021-29482)Record last updated .