An issue was discovered in Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 20.01.01.
Priority LOW 35CWE-476Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Will not fix Red Hat: no fix planned
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-476.
Summary
An issue was discovered in Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 20.01.01. If a PDU is sent to the iSCSI target with a zero length (but data is expected), the iSCSI target can crash with a NULL pointer dereference.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.0114 66th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Will not fix Red Hat: no fix planned
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 3
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-28361
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f2h7-8qhx-58qw
References
More Spdk Storage Performance Development Kit vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-11138 In Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 19.07, a user of a vhost can cause a… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2019-06972 In Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 19.01, a malicious vhost client… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2021-28361 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-28361 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f2h7-8qhx-58qw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2021-28361 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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