CVE-2021-3466
Published: 25 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-3466 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 37.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-26788
Vulnerability details
A flaw was found in libmicrohttpd. A missing bounds check in the post_process_urlencoded function leads to a buffer overflow, allowing a remote attacker to write arbitrary data in an application that uses libmicrohttpd. The highest threat from this vulnerability is…
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to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. Only version 0.9.70 is vulnerable.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.