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CVE-2021-35525

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-35525 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PostSRSd before version 1.11, where specific long data fields from Postfix can cause subprocesses to hang. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability has a low impact (availability only) and does not require user interaction or privileges. While theoretically exploitable, the maintainer notes difficulty in reliably triggering it externally, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postsrsd_project:postsrsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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

bugs.gentoo.org / 793674
Issue TrackingPatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / roehling/postsrsd/commit/077be98d8c8a9847e4ae0c7dc09e7474cbe27db2
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / roehling/postsrsd/releases/tag/1.11
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202107-08
Third Party Advisory