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CVE-2021-20294

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 3.41%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-04-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2021-20294
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.41%

Original NVD Description

A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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