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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-40871

Remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) by sending crafted messages to a OPC/UA client.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.31%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Softing Industrial Automation OPC UA C++ SDK before 5.66. Remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) by sending crafted messages to a OPC/UA client. The client process may crash unexpectedly because of a wrong type cast, and must be restarted.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.31% probability · 69th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-843
Affected
softing/datafeed opc suite · softing/opc · softing/secure integration server · softing/th scope
Source
cve@mitre.org

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