Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33684

Medium

Published: 14 July 2021

Published
14 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33684 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Sap Netweaver Abap. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and ABAP Platform, versions - KRNL32NUC 7.21, 7.21EXT, 7.22, 7.22EXT, KRNL32UC 7.21, 7.21EXT, 7.22, 7.22EXT, KRNL64NUC 7.21, 7.21EXT, 7.22, 7.22EXT, 7.49, KRNL64UC 8.04, 7.21, 7.21EXT, 7.22, 7.22EXT, 7.49, 7.53, KERNEL 8.04, 7.21, 7.21EXT, 7.22, 7.22EXT, 7.49,…

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7.53, 7.77, 7.81, 7.84, allows an attacker to send overlong content in the RFC request type thereby crashing the corresponding work process because of memory corruption vulnerability. The work process will attempt to restart itself after the crash and hence the impact on the availability is low.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

sap
netweaver abap
7.21, 7.21ext, 7.22, 7.22ext, 7.49
sap
netweaver application server abap
7.21, 7.21ext, 7.22, 7.22ext, 7.49

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