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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 4.0
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
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.