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CVE-2021-31571

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31571 is a critical integer overflow vulnerability (CWE-190) in the queue.c component of the Amazon Web Services FreeRTOS kernel, affecting versions prior to 10.4.3. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amazon:freertos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 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 / FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/commit/47338393f1f79558f6144213409f09f81d7c4837
PatchThird Party Advisory