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FKIE_CVE-2021-28484

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-04-14 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:46

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

An issue was discovered in the /api/connector endpoint handler in Yubico yubihsm-connector before 3.0.1 (in YubiHSM SDK before 2021.04). The handler did not validate the length of the request, which can lead to a state where yubihsm-connector becomes stuck in a loop waiting for the YubiHSM to send it data, preventing any further operations until the yubihsm-connector is restarted. An attacker can send 0, 1, or 2 bytes to trigger this.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/Yubico/yubihsm-connector/releases	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7Q2KGXSPQEEONAWMFZRVH2TXWX3QPCQ/
cve@mitre.org	https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2021-02/	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/Yubico/yubihsm-connector/releases	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7Q2KGXSPQEEONAWMFZRVH2TXWX3QPCQ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2021-02/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	yubico	yubihsm_connector	*
	fedoraproject	fedora	34

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CVE-2021-28484 (GCVE-0-2021-28484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-14 17:07 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:47

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Yubico/yubihsm-connector/releases	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisorie…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

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