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CVE-2021-38435

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-38435 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting RTI Connext DDS Professional and Secure versions 4.2x through 6.1.0, stemming from incorrect buffer size calculations. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk as an unauthenticated attacker can exploit it remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.2, < 6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rti:connext_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.2, < 6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rti:connext_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0139 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.rti.com / s/login
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
cisa.gov / uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-315-02
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource