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CVE-2021-24036

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-24036 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in Facebook's Folly library and HHVM, where an attacker-controlled size during IOBuf creation can lead to an out-of-bounds write and potential remote code execution. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating it is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers. It is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2021.07.22.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:folly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.80.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:hhvm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.81.0, <= 4.102.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:hhvm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.103.0, <= 4.113.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:hhvm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.114.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:hhvm:4.114.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0328 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / facebook/folly/commit/4f304af1411e68851bdd00ef6140e9de4616f7d3
PatchThird Party Advisory
hhvm.com / blog/2021/07/20/security-update.html
ProductVendor Advisory
facebook.com / security/advisories/cve-2021-24036
Vendor Advisory