Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40592

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 08 June 2022

Published
08 June 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0030 53.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40592 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Gpac Gpac. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.1% 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

GPAC version before commit 71460d72ec07df766dab0a4d52687529f3efcf0a (version v1.0.1 onwards) contains loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') vulnerability in ISOBMFF reader filter, isoffin_read.c. Function isoffin_process() can result in DoS by infinite loop. To exploit, the victim must open a specially crafted…

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mp4 file.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gpac
gpac
≤ 1.0.1

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.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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