CVE-2021-42388
Published: 14 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-42388 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Clickhouse Clickhouse. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.4% 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-29359
Vulnerability details
Heap out-of-bounds read in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query. As part of the LZ4::decompressImpl() loop, a 16-bit unsigned user-supplied value ('offset') is read from the compressed data. The offset is later used in the length of…
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a copy operation, without checking the lower bounds of the source of the copy operation.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.