Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-28855

Medium

Published: 14 April 2021

Published
14 April 2021
Modified
26 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-28855 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Entropymine Deark. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Deark before 1.5.8, a specially crafted input file can cause a NULL pointer dereference in the dbuf_write function (src/deark-dbuf.c).

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

entropymine
deark
≤ 1.5.8

Mitigating Controls

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

References