CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20234

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-04-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-401

Description

An uncontrolled resource consumption (memory leak) flaw was found in the ZeroMQ client in versions before 4.3.3 in src/pipe.cpp. This issue causes a client that connects to multiple malicious or compromised servers to crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected configurations

• zeromq libzmq (< 4.3.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References