CVE-2021-1114

Medium

Published: 11 August 2021

Published

11 August 2021

Modified

21 November 2024

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0012 29.9th percentile

Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-1114 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Nvidia Jetson Linux. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NVIDIA Linux kernel distributions contain a vulnerability in the kernel crypto node, where use after free may lead to complete denial of service.

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

nvidia

jetson linux

32.1 — 32.6.1

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.