CVE-2021-38425 is a critical denial-of-service and information exposure vulnerability affecting eProsima Fast DDS versions prior to 2.4.0. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted packets, leading to a flood of unwanted traffic on the target device. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, posing a significant risk to availability and confidentiality. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered notable community discussion, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eprosima:fast_dds:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.