Xz
Vendor:
First CVE: Jul 25, 2017 · Active for 9 years
5
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 79% of tracked products
1.0
Avg CVEs / Year
Bottom 1%
7.5
Avg CVSS
Higher Avg CVSS than 52% of tracked products
0.0%
KEV Rate
Bottom 1%
Trends Over Time
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact Xz over time
Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Jul 25, 2017
9 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Apr 2, 2026
117 days ago
CVE Severity & Scoring
Xz5 CVEs
40%
40%
20%
All CVEs353,240 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
MediumHighCritical
Attack Vector
Local2 (40.0%)
Network3 (60.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low5 (100.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
User Interaction
None4 (80.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Required1 (20.0%)
Privileges Required
Low2 (40.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None3 (60.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Top CVEs
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (5 CVEs).
5 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2024-3094CRITICAL Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0.
Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt | Mar 29, 2024 | 10.0 | 89 | NO | YES |
CVE-2022-1271HIGH An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the attacker's chosen file name (for example, a crafted file name), this can o | Aug 31, 2022 | 8.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-34743MEDIUM XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. Prior to version 5.8.3, if lzma_index_decoder() was used to decode an Index that contained no R | Apr 2, 2026 | 5.3 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2015-4035HIGH scripts/xzgrep.in in xzgrep 5.2.x before 5.2.0, before 5.0.0 does not properly process file names containing semicolons, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by | Jul 25, 2017 | 7.8 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-22916MEDIUM 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 "den | Aug 22, 2023 | 5.5 | 16 | NO | NO |
Exploit Exposure
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (5 CVEs).
CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
1 CVE
20.0% of CVEs· 98th percentile
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Social Chatter
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (5 CVEs).
Media Mentions
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (5 CVEs).
Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Xz
Top CWEs
Versions
| Version | CVE Count | Avg CVSS | Avg EPSS | KEV | Exploits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6.1 | 1 | 10.0 | 86.0% | 0 | 1 |
| 5.6.0 | 1 | 10.0 | 86.0% | 0 | 1 |
| 5.2.5 | 1 | 5.5 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 |