Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40574

HighPublic PoC

Published: 13 January 2022

Published
13 January 2022
Modified
07 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0024 48.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40574 is a high-severity Double Free (CWE-415) vulnerability in Gpac Gpac. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The binary MP4Box in Gpac from 0.9.0-preview to 1.0.1 has a double-free vulnerability in the gf_text_get_utf8_line function in load_text.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, even code execution and escalation of privileges.

CWE(s)
CWE-415

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gpac
gpac
0.9.0 — 1.0.1

Mitigating Controls

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

References