CVE-2021-27431 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-27431

ARM CMSIS RTOS2 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Vulnerability Description

ARM CMSIS RTOS2 versions prior to 2.1.3 are vulnerable to integer wrap-around inosRtxMemoryAlloc (local malloc equivalent) function, which can lead to arbitrary memory allocation, resulting in unexpected behavior such as a crash or injected code execution.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • David Atch, Omri Ben Bassat, and Tamir Ariel from Microsoft Section 52, and the Azure Defender for IoT research group reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

CMSIS RTOS2
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified

Timeline

Official Publish: May 3rd, 2022
Last Modified: April 16th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)