CVE-2021-22761
Published: 11 June 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-22761 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Schneider-Electric Interactive Graphical Scada System. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-9896
Vulnerability details
A CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists inIGSS Definition (Def.exe) V15.0.0.21140 and prior that could result in disclosure of information or remote code e+F15xecution due to missing length check on user supplied…
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data, when a malicious CGF file is imported to IGSS Definition.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.