CVE-2021-40829
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Improper certificate management in AWS IoT Device SDK v2
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk:aws-iot-device-sdk | <1.4.2 | 1.4.2 |
| npm | aws-iot-device-sdk-v2 | <1.5.3 | 1.5.3 |
| PyPI | awsiotsdk | <1.6.1 | 1.6.1 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40829
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-743r-5g92-5vgf
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-cpp-v2
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/commits/v1.4.2
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js-v2
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2
- https://github.com/awslabs/aws-c-io
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/awsiotsdk/PYSEC-2021-862.yaml
- https://github.com/awslabs/aws-c-io/
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.