Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-45257

Medium

Published: 22 December 2021

Published
22 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0028 51.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-45257 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An infinite loop vulnerability exists in nasm 2.16rc0 via the gpaste_tokens function.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

nasm
netwide assembler
2.16

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-835

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

addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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