01 Record
CVE-2021-33881
On NXP MIFARE Ultralight and NTAG cards, an attacker can interrupt a write operation (aka conduct a "tear off" attack) over RFID to bypass a Monotonic Counter protection mechanism. The impact depends
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
On NXP MIFARE Ultralight and NTAG cards, an attacker can interrupt a write operation (aka conduct a "tear off" attack) over RFID to bypass a Monotonic Counter protection mechanism. The impact depends
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
- 0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 35.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.2 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- 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
- 2021-06-06 15:33Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 00:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-06-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863Incorrect AuthorizationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 33b6bbaae7cf7bc3b4ba5993a5b7cc8a9c4574bc1b6dd1e5370323c4170312b1
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- blog.quarkslab.comhttps://blog.quarkslab.com/rfid-monotonic-counter-anti-tearing-defeated.html
- www.nxp.comhttps://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN13089.pdf
- www.nxp.comhttps://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN11340.pdf
- www.sstic.orghttps://www.sstic.org/2021/presentation/eeprom_it_will_all_end_in_tears/