Xmill
CVE-2021-21813
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, write limits
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the command line. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate write boundaries, use memory-safe languages, enable compiler protections (ASLR, stack canaries).
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787), which allows attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes. Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the command line. filepattern is passed directly to memcpy copying the path provided by the user into a staticly sized buffer without any length checks resulting in a stack-buffer overflow. Affected products include: Att Xmill.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the command line. filepattern is passed directly to memcpy copying the path provided by the user into a staticly sized buffer without any length checks resulting in a stack-buffer overflow.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the XML-parsing CreateLabelOrAttrib functionality of AT&T Labs’ Xmill 0.7. R
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression DecodeTreeBlock functionality of AT&T Labs Xm
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression DecodeTreeBlock functionality of AT&T Labs Xm
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression DecodeTreeBlock functionality of AT&T Labs Xm
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression PlainTextUncompressor::UncompressItem functio
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the XML-parsing ParseAttribs functionality of AT&T Labs’ Xmill 0.7. Rated cr
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression LabelDict::Load functionality of AT&T Labs’ X
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression EnumerationUncompressor::UncompressItem funct
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the command-line-parsing HandleFileArg functionality of AT&T Labs'
Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the comman
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the command-line-parsing HandleFileArg functionality of AT&T Labs’
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in XML Decompression DecodeTreeBlock in AT&T Labs Xmill 0.7. Rated critical severity
GitHub PoC
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