Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33023

Critical

Published: 18 October 2021

Published
18 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0091 76.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33023 is a critical-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Advantech Webaccess. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 23.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Advantech WebAccess versions 9.02 and prior are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, which may allow an attacker to remotely execute code.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

advantech
webaccess
≤ 9.0.2

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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References