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CVE-2021-38487

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-38487 is a critical denial-of-service and information exposure vulnerability affecting RTI Connext Professional (versions 4.1 to 6.1.0) and Connext Micro (versions 2.4 and later). An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this remotely with low complexity by sending a specially crafted packet, leading to a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL). While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 72/100, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rti:connext_dds_micro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 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: 4.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0334 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 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
rti.com / vulnerabilities