Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-30485

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 11 April 2021

Published
11 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0146 81.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-30485 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Ezxml Project Ezxml. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in libezxml.a in ezXML 0.8.6. The function ezxml_internal_dtd(), while parsing a crafted XML file, performs incorrect memory handling, leading to a NULL pointer dereference while running strcmp() on a NULL pointer.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ezxml project
ezxml
0.8.6
debian
debian linux
9.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References