CVE-2021-21796

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

15.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 96.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2021-10-18 12:42Z5 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-03 18:23Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2021-01-04

Assigning CNA

talos

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

• CWE-416Use After FreeVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

00db8c9a916d35a044c7f4b0c4cdc8bc6f83a0fc76278975057e7badcb2b07f7

• talosintelligence.comhttps://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1265x_refsource_MISC