CVE-2021-27217

Published Mar 4, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 4.4 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in the _send_secure_msg() function of Yubico yubihsm-shell through 2.0.3. The function does not correctly validate the embedded length field of an authenticated message received from the device. Out-of-bounds reads performed by aes_remove_padding() can crash the running process, depending on the memory layout. This could be used by an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service. The yubihsm-shell project is included in the YubiHSM 2 SDK product.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-13982 An issue was discovered in the _send_secure_msg() function of Yubico yubihsm-shell through 2.0.3. The function does not correctly validate the embedded length field of an authenticated message received from the device. Out-of-bounds reads performed by aes_remove_padding() can crash the running process, depending on the memory layout. This could be used by an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service. The yubihsm-shell project is included in the YubiHSM 2 SDK product.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 8:40 PM
Reserved
Feb 15, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 4, 2021, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:44 AM