Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25144

High

Published: 29 March 2021

Published
29 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0121 79.4th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25144 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Instant. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in some Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) products in version(s): Aruba Instant 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.17 and below; Aruba Instant 6.5.x: 6.5.4.16 and below; Aruba Instant 8.3.x: 8.3.0.12 and below; Aruba Instant 8.5.x: 8.5.0.6 and…

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below; Aruba Instant 8.6.x: 8.6.0.2 and below. Aruba has released patches for Aruba Instant that address this security vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

arubanetworks
instant
6.4.0.0 — 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.18 · 6.5.0.0 — 6.5.4.17 · 8.3.0.0 — 8.3.0.13
siemens
scalance w1750d firmware
≤ 8.7.0

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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