CVE-2021-28874
Published: 06 April 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-28874 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Serenityos Serenityos. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-15527
Vulnerability details
SerenityOS fixed as of c9f25bca048443e317f1994ba9b106f2386688c3 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in LibTextCode through opening a crafted file.
- 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.