Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-3966

Critical

Published: 11 January 2023

Published
11 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 29.9th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-3966 is a critical-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Zephyrproject Zephyr. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

usb device bluetooth class includes a buffer overflow related to implementation of net_buf_add_mem.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zephyrproject
zephyr
≤ 3.0.0

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.

addresses: CWE-120

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

References