Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-38435

Medium

Published: 05 May 2022

Published
05 May 2022
Modified
05 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-38435 is a medium-severity Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size (CWE-131) vulnerability in Rti Connext Professional. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

RTI Connext DDS Professional and Connext DDS Secure Versions 4.2x to 6.1.0 not correctly calculate the size when allocating the buffer, which may result in a buffer overflow.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

rti
connext professional
4.2 — 6.1.0
rti
connext secure
4.2 — 6.1.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References