Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-37716

Critical

Published: 07 September 2021

Published
07 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0166 82.5th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-37716 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Aruba SD-WAN Software and Gateways; Aruba Operating System Software version(s): Prior to 8.6.0.4-2.2.0.4; Prior to 8.7.1.2, 8.6.0.8, 8.5.0.12, 8.3.0.15. Aruba has released patches for Aruba SD-WAN Software and Gateways and ArubaOS that…

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address this security vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

arubanetworks
sd-wan
2.2.0.0 — 2.2.0.4
arubanetworks
arubaos
8.3.0.0 — 8.3.0.15 · 8.5.0.0 — 8.5.0.12 · 8.6.0.0 — 8.6.0.8
siemens
scalance w1750d firmware
≤ 8.7.1.3

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

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

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