01 Record
CVE-2021-29998
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks before 6.5. There is a possible heap overflow in dhcp client.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks before 6.5. There is a possible heap overflow in dhcp client.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 2.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-04-13 16:16Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 22:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-04-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2b3eeddcd8be981bf6a5be9b025ce57c3a015b2920be565ccc9a023dd98821de
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
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06 References
- support2.windriver.comhttps://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=security-notices
- cert-portal.siemens.comhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-560465.pdf
- us-cert.cisa.govhttps://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-194-12
- cert-portal.siemens.comhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-910883.pdf