CVE-2021-47813 (GCVE-0-2021-47813)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-15 23:25 – Updated: 2026-01-16 15:48
VLAI
Title
Backup Key Recovery 2.2.7 - Denial of Service (PoC)
Summary
Backup Key Recovery 2.2.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by overflowing the registration code input field. Attackers can paste a large buffer of 256 repeated characters into the registration key field to trigger application instability and potential crash.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2021-07-06 00:00
Credits
Erick Galindo
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