CVE-2021-3466

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

A flaw was found in libmicrohttpd. A missing bounds check in the post_process_urlencoded function leads to a buffer overflow, allowing a remote attacker to write arbitrary data in an application that uses libmicrohttpd. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. Only version 0.9.70 is vulnerable.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3466

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3466.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.71-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.71-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.71-1
debian debiansidfixed0.9.71-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.71-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.