CVE-2021-42979

8.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (8.8) in nomachine cloud server. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NoMachine Cloud Server is affected by Integer Overflow. IOCTL Handler 0x22001B in the NoMachine Cloud Server above 4.0.346 and below 7.7.4 allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and OS crash) via specially crafted I/O Request Packet.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-190
Published: 2021-12-07
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nomachine:cloud_server

References

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/usb-over-ethernet-multiple-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-in-aws-and-other-major-cloud-services/
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/usb-over-ethernet-multiple-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-in-aws-and-other-major-cloud-services/

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