Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-29098

High

Published: 25 March 2021

Published
25 March 2021
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0046 64.3th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-29098 is a high-severity Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824) vulnerability in Esri Arcgis Engine. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 35.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Multiple uninitialized pointer vulnerabilities when parsing a specially crafted file in Esri ArcReader, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine 10.8.1 (and earlier) and ArcGIS Pro 2.7 (and earlier) allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the…

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current user.

CWE(s)
CWE-824

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

esri
arcgis engine
≤ 10.8.1
esri
arcgis pro
≤ 2.7
esri
arcmap
≤ 10.8.1
esri
arcreader
≤ 10.8.1

Mitigating Controls

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

References