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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-43400

A use-after-free can occur when a client disconnects during D-Bus processing of a WriteValue call.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 1.66%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in gatt-database.c in BlueZ 5.61. A use-after-free can occur when a client disconnects during D-Bus processing of a WriteValue call.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.66% probability · 75th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-416
Affected
bluez/bluez · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

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