Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33480

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 17 November 2021

Published
17 November 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.1th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33480 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Optical Character Recognition Project Optical Character Recognition. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in gocr through 0.53-20200802 in context_correction() in pgm2asc.c.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

optical character recognition project
optical character recognition
≤ 0.53-20200802

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References