A AegiFlow
HIGHCVSS 7.5

CVE-2021-36090

CVE-2021-36090 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-10-10
Sources
nvd

Summary

When reading a specially crafted ZIP 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' zip package.

References

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