Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-24028

Critical

Published: 14 April 2021

Published
14 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0167 82.6th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-24028 is a critical-severity Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference (CWE-763) vulnerability in Facebook Thrift. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization can cause the application to crash or potentially result in code execution or other undesirable effects. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00.

CWE(s)
CWE-763

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

facebook
thrift
≤ 2021.02.22.00

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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