Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-27135

Critical

Published: 10 February 2021

Published
10 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0072 73.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-27135 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Invisible-Island Xterm. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

xterm before Patch #366 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted UTF-8 combining character sequence.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

invisible-island
xterm
≤ 366
debian
debian linux
9.0
fedoraproject
fedora
33

Mitigating Controls

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

References