CVE-2021-32559 (GCVE-0-2021-32559)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-06 11:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:25
VLAI
Summary
An integer overflow exists in pywin32 prior to version b301 when adding an access control entry (ACE) to an access control list (ACL) that would cause the size to be greater than 65535 bytes. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could crash the vulnerable process.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2341 records in the last 180 days details
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