Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33644

High

Published: 10 August 2022

Published
10 August 2022
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 45.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33644 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Openatom Openeuler. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 45.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longname, causing an out-of-bounds read.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

feep
libtar
≤ 1.2.21
openatom
openeuler
20.03, 22.03
fedoraproject
fedora
35, 36, 37

Mitigating Controls

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

References