CVE-2022-21711 HIGH

CVE-2022-21711: Out-of-bounds Read lead to application crashes or information leakage in ELF parsing.

Vendor Liyansong2018
Product elfspirit
Weakness CWE-125
Published January 24, 2022
Last update April 22, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

elfspirit is an ELF static analysis and injection framework that parses, manipulates, and camouflages ELF files. When analyzing the ELF file format in versions prior to 1.1, there is an out-of-bounds read bug, which can lead to application crashes or information leakage. By constructing a special format ELF file, the information of any address can be leaked. elfspirit version 1.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 24, 2022 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated