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CVE-2021-42577

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-42577 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Softing OPC UA C++ SDK and related products, where a malformed OPC/UA message abort packet can cause a client crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high impact on availability, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:softing:datafeed_opc_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.70.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:softing:opc_ua_c\+\+_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:softing:secure_integration_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0094 is in the 32nd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

industrial.softing.com / fileadmin/sof-files/pdf/ia/support/Security_Bulletin_CVE-2021-42577.pdf
Vendor Advisory
softing.com
Vendor Advisory