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CVE-2021-3580

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3580 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Nettle's RSA decryption functions, affecting products from Debian, NetApp, and Red Hat. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw remotely by providing specially crafted ciphertext, leading to an application crash. While rated as high severity (CVSS 7.5), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 (8)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19015-16823Fixed in: 3.7.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 nettle 3.7.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.7.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 nettle 3.7.3-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 3.7.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19014-16820Fixed in: 3.7.3-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nettle-0:3.4.1-7.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnutls-0:3.6.16-4.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: nettle

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2021-Aug/CVE-2021-3580Important

A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

Aug 10, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-3580Moderate

nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext

Jun 7, 2021

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-24
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20211104-0006
Third Party Advisory