Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-45960

Title: Tenable Nessus

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2021-45960

CWE Category CWE-682
Published Date Jan 01, 2022
Modified Date May 05, 2025
Exploit Status Available
Score 8.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-45960: In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).

Impacted Vendors

N
nessus 1
L
libexpat_project 1
T
tenable 1
N
netapp 4
S
siemens 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/17/3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217609 https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-484086.pdf https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/531 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/534 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-24 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0004/ https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5073 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-05 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/17/3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217609 https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-484086.pdf https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/531 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/534 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-24 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0004/ https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5073 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-05
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity HIGH
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-45960 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/Trinadh465/external_lib_AOSP10_r33_CVE-2021-45960_CVE-2021-46143-
View Code
GitHub https://github.com/nanopathi/external_expat_AOSP10_r33_CVE-2021-45960
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.