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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-42388

Heap out-of-bounds read in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 1.57%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Heap out-of-bounds read in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query. As part of the LZ4::decompressImpl() loop, a 16-bit unsigned user-supplied value ('offset') is read from the compressed data. The offset is later used in the length of a copy operation, without checking the lower bounds of the source of the copy operation.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.57% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
clickhouse/clickhouse · debian/debian linux
Source
reefs@jfrog.com

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