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CVE-2021-37519

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in authfile.c memcached 1.6.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted authenticattion file.

Affected products

• Memcached: 1.6.9

References

• https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/805
• https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/806/commits/264722ae4e248b453be00e97197dadc685b60fd0
• https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/805
• https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/806/commits/264722ae4e248b453be00e97197dadc685b60fd0

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