CVE-2021-38439 (GCVE-0-2021-38439)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-05 15:14 – Updated: 2025-04-16 16:24
VLAI
Title
GurumDDS Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
All versions of GurumDDS are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow, which may cause a denial-of-service condition or remotely execute arbitrary code.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-16 15:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
icscert CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 342 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GurumNetworks GurumDDS Affected: all versions
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Credits
Federico Maggi (Trend Micro Research), Ta-Lun Yen, and Chizuru Toyama (TXOne Networks, Trend Micro) reported these vulnerabilities to CISA. In addition, Patrick Kuo, Mars Cheng (TXOne Networks, Trend Micro), Víctor Mayoral-Vilches (Alias Robotics), and Erik Boasson (ADLINK Technology) also contributed to this research.
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