Vulnerability · Published Sep 20, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-39579
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in swftools through 20200710. A heap-buffer-overflow exists in the function string_hash() located in q.c. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/125 x_refsource_MISC