Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40085

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 31 August 2021

Published
31 August 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
31 August 2021
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0135 80.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40085 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Openstack Neutron. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 19.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.2.1, and 18.x before 18.1.1. Authenticated attackers can reconfigure dnsmasq via a crafted extra_dhcp_opts value.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

openstack
neutron
≤ 16.4.1 · 17.0.0 — 17.2.1 · 18.0.0 — 18.1.1
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