Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40465

High

Published: 13 October 2021

Published
13 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0366 88.1th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40465 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 11.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Text Shaping Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10
1607, 1809, 1909, 2004, 20h2
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 7
sp1
microsoft
windows 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows rt 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows server
20h2
microsoft
windows server 2008
r2, sp2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
2004, all versions
microsoft
windows server 2019
all versions
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

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

References