Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44154

HighPublic PoC

Published: 13 December 2021

Published
13 December 2021
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0067 71.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44154 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Reprisesoftware Reprise License Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.1% 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

An issue was discovered in Reprise RLM 14.2. By using an admin account, an attacker can write a payload to /goform/edit_opt, which will then be triggered when running the diagnostics (via /goform/diagnostics_doit), resulting in a buffer overflow.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

reprisesoftware
reprise license manager
14.2 — 16.0

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.

addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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