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CVE-2021-45470

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45470 is a regular expression injection vulnerability in lib/DatabaseLayer.py of cve-search versions prior to 4.1.0. This flaw, rated High severity (CVSS 7.5), allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) by sending specially crafted input, leading to service unavailability. While no public exploits, Metasploit modules, or community discussions have been observed, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:circl:cve-search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / cve-search/cve-search/commit/c621f9f0693a728b93ff3b964f948a1d25917207
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / cve-search/cve-search/compare/v4.0...v4.1.0
Third Party Advisory
github.com / cve-search/cve-search/pull/629
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory