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CVE-2021-3622

4.3 mediumEPSS 5.2%

Medium (4.3). EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the _get_children() function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

References

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