CVSS base score: 10.0 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1
Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.
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 object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then used to modify specific functions in the liblzma code. This results in a modified liblzma library that can be used by any software linked against this library, intercepting and modifying the data interaction with this library.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 141 points from 2024-03-30, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 91.7% on 2025-03-29.
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No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.
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Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
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| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2024-04-29 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices | CISA |
| 2024-04-02 | 2024-032: Critical Vulnerability in XZ Utils | CERT-EU |
| 2024-03-29 | Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library, CVE-2024-3094 | CISA |
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