High severity · published Mar 12, 2021
CVE-2021-28302
A stack overflow in pupnp before version 1.14.5 can cause the denial of service through the Parser_parseDocument() function
7.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A stack overflow in pupnp before version 1.14.5 can cause the denial of service through the Parser_parseDocument() function. ixmlNode_free() will release a child node recursively, which will consume stack space and lead to a crash.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PU
Pupnp · Pupnp Project
before 1.14.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28302
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28302
Exploit
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/issues/249
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/releases/tag/release-1.14.5
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