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CVE-2021-43413

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-43413 is a critical vulnerability affecting GNU Hurd before version 0.9 20210404-9. It allows an attacker to modify any files they can read due to a shared pager port when memory-mapping files. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and can be trivially exploited for full root access. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.9.20210404-9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:hurd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0191 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html
ExploitMailing ListVendor Advisory
mail-archive.com / bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32113.html