CVE-2021-45681
Published: 27 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45681 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Derive-Com-Impl Project Derive-Com-Impl. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 43.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-0715
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in the derive-com-impl crate before 0.1.2 for Rust. An invalid reference (and memory corruption) can occur because AddRef might not be called before returning a pointer.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.