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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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.