CVE-2021-42076

7.5 highEPSS 1.6%

High (7.5) in barrier project barrier. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Barrier before 2.3.4. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion in the barriers component (aka the server-side implementation of Barrier) and barrierc by sending long TCP messages.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2021-11-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

barrier_project:barrier

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/02/4
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases/tag/v2.3.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/02/4
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases/tag/v2.3.4

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