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CVE-2021-45700

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45700 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ckb crate before version 0.40.0, specifically impacting Nervos CKB blockchain nodes. Attackers can trigger a node crash by utilizing a "dead call" as a DepGroup. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable issue with low attack complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.40.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nervos:ckb:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

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
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 39th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ckbFixed in: 0.40.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-cw98-cx2m-9qqghigh

Denial of Service in ckb

Jan 6, 2022

References

raw.githubusercontent.com / rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/ckb/RUSTSEC-2021-0109.md
Third Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0109.html
Third Party Advisory