Medium severity · published Jan 6, 2022
CVE-2021-46142
An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6
5.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriNormalizeSyntax.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
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
BA
Backports · Opensuse
sle-15 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
EP
Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux · Fedoraproject
8.0 · source: NVD
FA
Factory · Opensuse
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34; 35 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.3 · source: NVD
UR
Uriparser · Uriparser Project
before 0.9.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46142
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46142
Third Party Advisory
https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/uriparser-096-with-security-fixes-released/
Exploit
https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser/issues/122
Exploit
https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser/pull/124
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MO6T7WA27H7K3WI2AXUAGPWBGK4HM65D/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGIJTDNEMU2V4H3JJBQVKBRHU5GBQKG2/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5063
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