Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-42197 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Swftools

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

swftools

CWE-401

NVD

Published: 2022-06-02

Updated: 2023-08-08

Summary

An issue was discovered in swftools through 20201222 through a memory leak in the swftools when swfdump is used. It allows an attacker to cause code execution.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Swftools Swftools Swftools - Swftools Swftools 0.0.1 Swftools Swftools 0.0.2 Swftools Swftools 0.1.0 Swftools Swftools 0.1.1 Swftools Swftools 0.1.2 Swftools Swftools 0.2.0 Swftools Swftools 0.2.1 Swftools Swftools 0.2.2 Swftools Swftools 0.2.3 Swftools Swftools 0.3.0 Swftools Swftools 0.3.1 Swftools Swftools 0.4.0 Swftools Swftools 0.4.1 Swftools Swftools 0.4.2 Swftools Swftools 0.4.3 Swftools Swftools 0.4.4 Swftools Swftools 0.5.0 Swftools Swftools 0.5.1 Swftools Swftools 0.6.0 Swftools Swftools 0.6.1 Swftools Swftools 0.6.2 Swftools Swftools 0.6.3 Swftools Swftools 0.7.0 Swftools Swftools 0.8.0 Swftools Swftools 0.8.1 Swftools Swftools 0.9.0 Swftools Swftools 0.9.1 Swftools Swftools 0.9.2 Swftools Swftools 2013-04-09-1007 Swftools Swftools 2020-12-22	31

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-401 - Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

References

https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/177