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CVE-2021-3909

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3909 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OctoRPKI, affecting Cloudflare and Debian versions of the software. An attacker can exploit this by initiating a slowloris attack, causing OctoRPKI to maintain an open connection indefinitely. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact. 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
< 1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:octorpki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.4.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:octorpki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cloudflare/cfrpkiFixed in: 1.4.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-8cvr-4rrf-f244medium

Infinite open connection causes OctoRPKI to hang forever

Nov 10, 2021

References

github.com / cloudflare/cfrpki/security/advisories/GHSA-8cvr-4rrf-f244
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-5033
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5041
Third Party Advisory