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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-27217

Out-of-bounds reads performed by aes_remove_padding() can crash the running process, depending on the memory layout.

MEDIUM 4.4EPSS 1.59%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.59%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in the _send_secure_msg() function of Yubico yubihsm-shell through 2.0.3. The function does not correctly validate the embedded length field of an authenticated message received from the device. Out-of-bounds reads performed by aes_remove_padding() can crash the running process, depending on the memory layout. This could be used by an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service. The yubihsm-shell project is included in the YubiHSM 2 SDK product.

CVSS 3.1
4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.59% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
yubico/yubihsm-shell
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.