Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-32489

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 10 May 2021

Published
10 May 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0099 77.3th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-32489 is a medium-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Yubico Yubihsm-Shell. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.7% 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 the _send_secure_msg() function of Yubico yubihsm-shell through 2.0.3. The function does not correctly validate the embedded length field of an authenticated message received from the device because response_msg.st.len=8 can be accepted but triggers an integer…

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overflow, which causes CRYPTO_cbc128_decrypt (in OpenSSL) to encounter an undersized buffer and experience a segmentation fault. The yubihsm-shell project is included in the YubiHSM 2 SDK product.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

yubico
yubihsm-shell
≤ 2.0.3

Mitigating Controls

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

References