CVE-2021-25169
Published: 08 February 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-25169 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Hpe Baseboard Management Controller. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 32.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-12080
Vulnerability details
The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware in HPE Apollo 70 System prior to version 3.0.14.0 has a local buffer overflow in libifc.so websetservicecfg function.
- 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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.