CVE-2021-28187
Published: 06 April 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-28187 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Asus Z10Pr-D16 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 31.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-14877
Vulnerability details
The specific function in ASUS BMC’s firmware Web management page (Generate new SSL certificate) does not verify the string length entered by users, resulting in a Buffer overflow vulnerability. As obtaining the privileged permission, remote attackers use the leakage to…
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abnormally terminate the Web service.
- 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.