Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-3480

High

Published: 20 May 2021

Published
20 May 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0180 83.2th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-3480 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 16.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to…

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system availability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

slapi-nis project
slapi-nis
≤ 0.56.7
fedoraproject
fedora
33, 34

Mitigating Controls

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

References