Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40826

HighPublic PoC

Published: 15 December 2021

Published
15 December 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 0.0037 59.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40826 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Clementine-Player Clementine. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.9% 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

Clementine Music Player through 1.3.1 is vulnerable to a User Mode Write Access Violation, affecting the MP3 file parsing functionality at clementine+0x3aa207. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a crafted MP3 file or loads a remote stream URL…

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that is mishandled by Clementine. Attackers could exploit this issue to cause a crash (DoS) of the clementine.exe process or achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current logged-in Windows user.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

clementine-player
clementine
≤ 1.3.1

Mitigating Controls

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

References