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CVE-2021-4048

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4048 is a critical out-of-bounds read vulnerability affecting the CLARRV, DLARRV, SLARRV, and ZLARRV functions in LAPACK up to version 3.10.0, and OpenBLAS before 0.3.18, impacting products from Fedora, JuliaLang, LAPACK Project, OpenBLAS Project, and Red Hat. This flaw, rated 9.1 CRITICAL (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H), allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause application crashes or potentially disclose memory contents with low attack complexity. Despite its high severity, 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
<= 3.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lapack_project:lapack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 0.3.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openblas_project:openblas:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:julialang:julia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:julialang:julia:1.7.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:julialang:julia:1.7.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0262 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (17)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18940-16820Fixed in: 3.8.0-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18941-16823Fixed in: 0.3.21-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18942-16823Fixed in: 3.10.0-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 lapack 3.10.0-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.10.0-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 lapack 3.8.0-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 3.8.0-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 openblas 0.3.21-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.3.21-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openblas-0:0.3.15-4.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHODF-4.14-RHEL-9Fixed in: odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator:v4.14.0-71
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHODF-4.14-RHEL-9Fixed in: odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.14.0-29
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4Fixed in: ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4Fixed in: ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2Fixed in: ceph
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: ceph
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: lapack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 4Fixed in: ceph
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: lapack

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2021-Dec/CVE-2021-4048Critical

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the CLARRV DLARRV SLARRV and ZLARRV functions in lapack through version 3.10.0 as also used in OpenBLAS before version 0.3.18. Specially crafted inputs passed to these functions could cause an application using lapack to crash or possibly disclose portions of its memory.

Dec 14, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-4048Moderate

lapack: Out-of-bounds read in *larrv

Sep 30, 2021

References

github.com / JuliaLang/julia/issues/42415
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / Reference-LAPACK/lapack/commit/38f3eeee3108b18158409ca2a100e6fe03754781
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / Reference-LAPACK/lapack/pull/625
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/2be5ee3cca97a597f2ee2118808a2d5eacea050c
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/337b65133df174796794871b3988cd03426e6d41
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/ddb0ff5353637bb5f5ad060c9620e334c143e3d7
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/fe497efa0510466fd93578aaf9da1ad8ed4edbe7
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6QFEVOCUG2UXMVMFMTU4ONJVDEHY2LW2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DROZM4M2QRKSD6FBO4BHSV2QMIRJQPHT