01 Record
CVE-2021-38526
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a buffer overflow by an unauthenticated attacker. This affects RAX35 before 1.0.3.94, RAX38 before 1.0.3.94, and RAX40 before 1.0.3.94.
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score4.3 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:L/C:N/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
02 Description
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a buffer overflow by an unauthenticated attacker. This affects RAX35 before 1.0.3.94, RAX38 before 1.0.3.94, and RAX40 before 1.0.3.94.
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
- 1.01% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 63.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (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:N/I:N/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
- 2021-08-11 00:01Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-08-10
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:L/C:N/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4a8c55ac399e8f5c0d0174fbf7e27dee62b2911f06565c0dc531deb2897765ce
05 Affected products
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