CVE-2021-40837

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.007 · 51 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.66% (51st) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-21

A vulnerability affecting F-Secure antivirus engine before Capricorn update 2022-02-01_01 was discovered whereby decompression of ACE file causes the scanner service to stop. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in denial-of-service of the antivirus engine.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.14.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Lsecondary · cve-notifications-us@f-secure.comexploitability 2.1 · impact 2.5

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

No weakness (CWE) mapping recorded.

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

F-Secure F-Secure endpoint protection products on Windows and Mac. F-Secure Linux Security (32-bit), F-Secure Linux Security 64, F-Secure Atlant, F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper & F-Secure Security Cloud≤ All Versionenisa_euvdEU
f-secure atlant< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:atlant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
f-secure elements endpoint detection and response< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:elements_endpoint_detection_and_response:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
f-secure elements endpoint protection< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:elements_endpoint_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
f-secure internet gatekeeper< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:internet_gatekeeper:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
f-secure linux security< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:linux_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
f-secure security cloud< 2022-02-01_01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:f-secure:security_cloud:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org

published 2022-02-09modified 2026-06-17

references (9)

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