Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-46848

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 24 October 2022

Published
24 October 2022
Modified
07 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0041 61.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-46848 is a critical-severity Off-by-one Error (CWE-193) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 38.2% 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

GNU Libtasn1 before 4.19.0 has an ETYPE_OK off-by-one array size check that affects asn1_encode_simple_der.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gnu
libtasn1
≤ 4.19.0
fedoraproject
fedora
35, 36, 37
debian
debian linux
10.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References