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CVE-2021-21404

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21404 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Syncthing versions prior to 1.15.0. An attacker can crash the Syncthing relay server (strelaysrv) or the Syncthing client itself by sending a specially crafted relay message containing a negative length field. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:syncthing:syncthing:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/syncthing/syncthingFixed in: 1.15.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-x462-89pf-6r5hlow

Crash due to malformed relay protocol message

May 21, 2021

References

github.com / syncthing/syncthing/commit/fb4fdaf4c0a79c22cad000c42ac1394e3ccb6a97
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v1.15.0
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / syncthing/syncthing/security/advisories/GHSA-x462-89pf-6r5h
Third Party Advisory
pkg.go.dev / github.com/syncthing/syncthing
ProductThird Party Advisory