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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2021-38487 json

Potential Network Amplification and Information Exposure in RTI Connext Professional and Connext Micro

published 2022-05-05 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-24939

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

RTI Connext Professional versions 4.1 to 6.1.0, and Connext Micro versions 2.4 and later are vulnerable when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic. This may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure.

Patch / fix

  • RTI Connext Professional 6.1.0

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-21-315-02 updated cvss 7.5

Multiple Data Distribution Service (DDS) Implementations (Update A)

  • Eclipse CycloneDDS <0.8.0 eProsima Fast DDS <2.4.0 GurumNetworks GurumDDS Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) Object Computing Inc. (OCI) OpenDDS <3.18.1 Real-Time Innovations (RTI) Connext DDS Professional and Connext DDS Secure >=4.2x, <6.1.0 Real-Time Innovations (RTI) RTI Connext DDS Micro >=3.0.0
    +1 more products
    TwinOaks Computing CoreDX DDS <5.9.1
    affected: mitigation “Eclipse recommends users apply the latest CycloneDDS patches.” projects.eclipse.org

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • RTI Connext Professional
  • RTI Connext Micro

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-406 Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)
  • CWE-923 Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.