CVE-2021-45848 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ 3.0.3 and later allows a user with a modified Soulseek client to crash Nicotine+ by sending a file download request with a file path containing a null character.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Nicotine-plus	Nicotine\+

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:nicotine-plus:nicotine\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/issues/1777
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWYV53KERFH2EC4XI2IVVQFTV75E5XM6/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-20

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00079}`	epss `{'score': 0.00084}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:54:31.095Z

Reserved: 2021-12-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-45848

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-15T19:15:07.840

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:33:09.233

Link: CVE-2021-45848

Redhat

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