CVE-2021-38441

Eclipse CycloneDDS Write-what-where Condition

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Eclipse CycloneDDS versions prior to 0.8.0 are vulnerable to a write-what-where condition, which may allow an attacker to write arbitrary values in the XML parser.

Eclipse CycloneDDS versiones anteriores a 0.8.0, son vulnerables a una condición de escritura en cualquier lugar, lo que puede permitir a un atacante escribir valores arbitrarios en el analizador XML

*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.

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-08-10 CVE Reserved
2022-05-05 CVE Published
2023-11-26 EPSS Updated
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-123: Write-what-where Condition

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.cyclonedds	Product
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-315-02	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Eclipse Search vendor "Eclipse"		Cyclonedds Search vendor "Eclipse" for product "Cyclonedds"				< 0.8.0 Search vendor "Eclipse" for product "Cyclonedds" and version " < 0.8.0"		-		Affected