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CVE-2021-31226 (GCVE-0-2021-31226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-19 10:48 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:55
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Summary
An issue was discovered in HCC embedded InterNiche 4.0.1. A potential heap buffer overflow exists in the code that parses the HTTP POST request, due to lack of size validation. This vulnerability requires the attacker to send a crafted HTTP POST request with a URI longer than 50 bytes. This leads to a heap overflow in wbs_post() via an strcpy() call.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.forescout.com/blog/new-critical-opera… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/608209 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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