Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-38171

Critical

Published: 21 August 2021

Published
21 August 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0021 43.5th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-38171 is a critical-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

adts_decode_extradata in libavformat/adtsenc.c in FFmpeg 4.4 does not check the init_get_bits return value, which is a necessary step because the second argument to init_get_bits can be crafted.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ffmpeg
ffmpeg
4.4
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References