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CVE-2021-41500

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-697

Description

Incomplete string comparison vulnerability exits in cvxopt.org cvxop <= 1.2.6 in APIs (cvxopt.cholmod.diag, cvxopt.cholmod.getfactor, cvxopt.cholmod.solve, cvxopt.cholmod.spsolve), which allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by construct fake Capsule objects.

Affected products

• Cvxopt Project Cvxopt: through 1.2.6
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34

References

• https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/issues/193
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CXTPM3DGVYTYQ54OFCMXZVWVOMR7JM2D/
• https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/issues/193
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CXTPM3DGVYTYQ54OFCMXZVWVOMR7JM2D/

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