CVE-2021-38441
Published: 05 May 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-38441 is a medium-severity Write-what-where Condition (CWE-123) vulnerability in Eclipse Cyclonedds. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-24893
Vulnerability details
Eclipse CycloneDDS versions prior to 0.8.0 are vulnerable to a write-what-where condition, which may allow an attacker to write arbitrary values in the XML parser.
- 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.
Write-what-where primitives are neutralized when the attacker cannot execute the memory they control.