Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-45689

Critical

Published: 27 December 2021

Published
27 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0042 62.3th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-45689 is a critical-severity Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908) vulnerability in Gfx-Auxil Project Gfx-Auxil. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the gfx-auxil crate through 2021-01-07 for Rust. gfx_auxil::read_spirv may read from uninitialized memory locations.

CWE(s)
CWE-908

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gfx-auxil project
gfx-auxil
≤ 0.10.0

Mitigating Controls

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

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