CVE-2021-3496

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

1.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 64.5% 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

2021-04-22 00:00Z5 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-03 16:53Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2021-04-13

Assigning CNA

fedora

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

2de8259a18584495cff04742b1ac27baa99e7b5a71930f8538825757c4eafbef

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949245
• github.comhttps://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/33
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202210-17https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17vendor-advisory