CVE-2021-29672
Published: 26 April 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-29672 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Protect Client. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 25.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-16146
Vulnerability details
IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1.0.0-8 through 1.11.0 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when processing the current locale settings. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with…
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elevated privileges or cause the application to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 199479
- 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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.