CVE-2021-25664

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 22, 2021 at 08:42 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:42 AM UTC
6 products affected across 1 vendorNucleus Source CodeNucleus NETNucleus ReadyStart V3

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Capital Embedded AR Classic 431-422 (All versions), Capital Embedded AR Classic R20-11 (All versions < V2303), Nucleus NET (All versions), Nucleus ReadyStart V3 (All versions < V2017.02.4), Nucleus ReadyStart V4 (All versions < V4.1.0), Nucleus Source Code (All versions including affected IPv6 stack). The function that processes the Hop-by-Hop extension header in IPv6 packets and its options lacks any checks against the length field of the header, allowing attackers to put the function into an infinite loop by supplying arbitrary length values.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions
v < 2017.02.4v < V2017.02.4
Affected range stops below 2017.02.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below V2017.02.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 4.1.0v < V4.1.0
Affected range stops below 4.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below V4.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < V2303
Affected range stops below V2303, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

7.5HIGHsiemens
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835

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