CVE-2021-28277

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerabilty exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 is affected by: Buffer Overflow via the RemoveUnknownSections function in jpgfile.c.

Se presenta una vulnerabilidad de Desbordamiento del Búfer en la región Heap de la memoria en jhead versiones 3.04 y 3.05, está afectada por: Desbordamiento del búfer por medio de la función RemoveUnknownSections en el archivo jpgfile.c

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-03-12 CVE Reserved
2022-03-23 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
2024-10-27 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/16	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17	2022-11-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Jhead Project Search vendor "Jhead Project"		Jhead Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead"				3.04 Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead" and version "3.04"		-		Affected
Jhead Project Search vendor "Jhead Project"		Jhead Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead"				3.05 Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead" and version "3.05"		-		Affected