CVE-2020-22916

An issue discovered in XZ 5.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via decompression of a crafted file. NOTE: the vendor disputes the claims of "endless output" and "denial of service" because decompression of the 17,486 bytes always results in 114,881,179 bytes, which is often a reasonable size increase.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
mitreCNA
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CISA-ADPADP
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 12%
VendorProductVersion
tukaanixz
5.2.5
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= Vulnerable software versions
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Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
xz-utils
noble
not-affected
mantic
ignored
lunar
ignored
jammy
not-affected
focal
not-affected
bionic
not-affected
xenial
not-affected
trusty
not-affected
References
http://web.archive.org/web/20230918084612/https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234987
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214590
https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/61
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-22916
https://tukaani.org/xz/
http://web.archive.org/web/20230918084612/https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234987
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214590
https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denial-of-service-vulnerability
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/61
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-22916
https://tukaani.org/xz/