Vulnerability · Published Sep 15, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-41061

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-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 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In RIOT-OS 2021.01, nonce reuse in 802.15.4 encryption in the ieee820154_security component allows attackers to break encryption by triggering reboots.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues/16844 x_refsource_MISC