CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-3578
High (7.8). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in mbsync before v1.3.6 and v1.4.2, where an unchecked pointer cast allows a malicious or compromised server to write an arbitrary integer value past the end of a heap-allocated structure by issuing an unexpected APPENDUID response. This could be plausibly exploited for remote code execution on the client.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-704
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- isync_project:isync
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/07/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967397
- https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00001.html