CVE-2021-38441 (GCVE-0-2021-38441)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-05-05 15:15
Modified
2025-04-16 16:24
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-123 - Write-what-where Condition
Summary
Eclipse CycloneDDS versions prior to 0.8.0 are vulnerable to a write-what-where condition, which may allow an attacker to write arbitrary values in the XML parser.
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Impacted products
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| Eclipse | CycloneDDS |
Version: unspecified < 0.8.0 |
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