CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-38441

Write-what-where Condition

Published: May 05, 2022 | Modified: May 13, 2022
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Eclipse CycloneDDS versions prior to 0.8.0 are vulnerable to a write-what-where condition, which may allow an attacker to write arbitrary values in the XML parser.

Weakness

Any condition where the attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, often as the result of a buffer overflow.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cyclonedds Eclipse * 0.8.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References