Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-42198

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 02 June 2022

Published
02 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 0.0018 39.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-42198 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Swftools Swftools. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.5th 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

An issue was discovered in swftools through 20201222. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function swf_GetBits() located in rfxswf.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

swftools
swftools
≤ 2020-12-22

Mitigating Controls

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

References