Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40401

HighPublic PoC

Published: 04 February 2022

Published
04 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0042 62.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40401 is a high-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability in Gerbv Project Gerbv. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.6% 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

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the RS-274X aperture definition tokenization functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd) and Gerbv forked 2.7.1. A specially-crafted gerber file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger…

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this vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-252

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gerbv project
gerbv
2.7.0, 2.7.1
fedoraproject
fedora
36
debian
debian linux
11.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References