CVE-2021-42996 is an integer overflow vulnerability affecting Donglify versions above 1.0.12309 and below 1.7.14110. A local attacker can exploit this flaw via a specially crafted I/O Request Packet to the IOCTL Handler 0x22001B. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a significant risk of arbitrary code execution in kernel mode or a denial of service due to memory corruption and OS crash. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, including an article from BleepingComputer.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
> 1.0.12309, < 1.7.14110CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:donglify:donglify:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.