Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33537

High

Published: 25 June 2021

Published
25 June 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0226 85.0th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33537 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Weidmueller Ie-Wl-Bl-Ap-Cl-Eu Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the iw_webs configuration parsing functionality. A specially crafted user name entry can cause an overflow of an error message buffer, resulting in remote code…

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execution. An attacker can send commands while authenticated as a low privilege user to trigger this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

weidmueller
ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-us firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-us firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10
weidmueller
ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware
≤ 1.16.18 · ≤ 1.11.10

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-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References