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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2021-3910 json

NUL character in ROA causes OctoRPKI to crash

published 2021-11-10 4 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-5mxh-2qfv-4g7j , GO-2022-0251 , EUVD-2021-2304

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OctoRPKI crashes when encountering a repository that returns an invalid ROA (just an encoded NUL (\0) character).

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki 1.4.0
  • Cloudflare octorpki 1.4.0
  • cfrpki Debian 12 1.4.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3910

Exploit prediction

1.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki
<1.4.0
1.4.0

Affected products

  • Cloudflare octorpki

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

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.