How severe is CVE-2021-43523?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of CRITICAL with a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2021-43523?

This is classified as CWE-79, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2021-43523 - CRITICAL Severity | CVSS 9.6

Vulnerability Description

In uClibc and uClibc-ng before 1.0.39, incorrect handling of special characters in domain names returned by DNS servers via gethostbyname, getaddrinfo, gethostbyaddr, and getnameinfo can lead to output of wrong hostnames (leading to domain hijacking) or injection into applications (leading to remote code execution, XSS, applications crashes, etc.). In other words, a validation step, which is expected in any stub resolver, does not occur.

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