Medium severity · published Feb 4, 2022
CVE-2021-40403
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0
6.3
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36 · source: NVD
GE
Gerbv · Gerbv Project
2.7.0; 2.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40403
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40403
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/
Exploit
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306
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