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high 7.5

CVE-2021-28361 json

An issue was discovered in Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 20.01.01.

published 2021-03-13 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-15045

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 20.01.01. If a PDU is sent to the iSCSI target with a zero length (but data is expected), the iSCSI target can crash with a NULL pointer dereference.

Patch / fix

  • spdk storage_performance_development_kit 20.01.01
  • ceph Azure Linux 3.0 18.2.2-1
  • ceph CBL-Mariner 2.0 16.2.10-3

azure linux advisories AZL-38836AZL-39466

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-28361 updated cvss 7.5

spdk: NULL pointer dereference in the iSCSI target If a PDU is sent with a zero length

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, ceph-mds, ceph-mon, ceph-osd, +12 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ceph Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) librbd1, librgw2, ceph-fuse, librados2, libcephfs2, python-rbd, +6 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, ceph-mon, +15 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, +27 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 librbd1, librados2, python-rbd, ceph-common, python-rados Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 librbd1, librados2, libcephfs2, libradosstriper1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 librbd1, librados2
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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