CVE-2021-31572
highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The kernel in Amazon Web Services FreeRTOS before 10.4.3 has an integer overflow in stream_buffer.c for a stream buffer.
remediations
Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.
No vendor fix yet; a mitigation is available.
- MitigationARM CMSIS-RTOS2cisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationARM Mbed OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationARM mbed-ualloccisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationAmazon FreeRTOScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationApache Nuttx OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationBlackBerry QNX OS for Medicalcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationBlackBerry QNX OS for Safetycisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationBlackBerry QNX SDPcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationCesanta Software Mongoose OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationGoogle Cloud IoT Device SDKcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationMedia Tek LinkIt SDKcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationMicrium OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationMicrium uC/OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationNXP MCUXpresso SDKcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationNXP MQXcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationRIOT OScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationRedhat newlibcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationSamsung Tizen RT RTOScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTencentOS-tinycisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTexas Instruments CC32XXcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTexas Instruments SimpleLinkcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTexas Instruments SimpleLink-CC13XXcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTexas Instruments SimpleLink-CC26XXcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationTexas Instruments SimpleLink-CC32XXcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationUclibc-NGcisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationWindriver VxWorkscisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationZephyr Project RTOScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - MitigationeCosCentric eCosPro RTOScisa_csaf_ot
Zephyr Project: Update to 2.5 or later. Patches available for prior supported versions. See the Zephyr security advisory for more information.
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr - WorkaroundSICK CDE-100 all Firmware versionssick_psirt
SICK is still investigating if the CDE-100 is affected by this vulnerability. Please make sure that you apply general security practices when operating the CDE-100 like network segmentation. The following General Security Practices and Operating Guidelines could mitigate the associated security risk.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
weaknesses
The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.
affected products (74)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
advisories (3)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- SCA-2024-0004Third party vulnerabilities in SICK CDE-1002024-11-07csaf · sick_psirtDE
The SICK CDE-100 uses the open-source libraries FreeRTOS, lwIP and MCU Boot. The used libraries contain vulnerabilities that affect the SICK CDE-100.
- SCA-2025-0003FreeRTOS Vulnerabilities have no impact on SICK Products2025-02-28csaf · sick_psirtDE
FreeRTOS has several known vulnerabilities and is used in various SICK products. A current analysis confirms that the identified vulnerabilities in FreeRTOS do not affect the mentioned SICK products. At this time, there is no indication of any potential risks to these SICK products.
- ICSA-21-119-04Multiple RTOS (Update E)2021-04-29icsa · cisa_csaf_otUS
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in unexpected behavior such as a crash or a remote code injection/execution.
also known as (4)
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sources
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references (8)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/commit/c7a9a01c94987082b223d3e59969ede64363da63cnnvd
- https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/commit/d05b9c123f2bf9090bce386a244fc934ae44db5bcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31572cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.1489.3cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2021043001cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2021061814cnnvd
- https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/commit/d05b9c123f2bf9090bce386a244fc934ae44db5benisa_euvd
- https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/commit/d05b9c123f2bf9090bce386a244fc934ae44db5bPatchThird Party Advisorynvd
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