Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21743

Medium

Published: 20 October 2021

Published
20 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.4th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21743 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Zte Mf971R Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ZTE MF971R product has a CRLF injection vulnerability. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to modify the HTTP response header information through a specially crafted HTTP request.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zte
mf971r firmware
1v1.0.0b06, 2v1.0.0b03, s2v1.0.0b03, sv1.0.0b05, v1.0.0b05

Mitigating Controls

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-74

Developer assessments and testing (including injection-focused techniques) identify improper neutralization of special elements, and the verifiable flaw remediation corrects them pre-deployment.

addresses: CWE-74

Identifies indicators of injection attacks (command, SQL, LDAP, etc.) via anomaly and attack monitoring.

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