NHI’s health insurance web service component – Heap-based Buffer Overflow
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
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-122 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
NHI’s health insurance web service component has insufficient validation for input string length, which can result in heap-based buffer overflow attack. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to flood the memory space reserved for the program, in order to terminate service without authentication, which requires a system restart to recover service.
Why it matters now
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHI | health insurance web service component | 515BE7DE5BCE446177FEE8A6E0665093 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| NHI | health insurance web service component | 42fcc36541e716e23de77d5f325b186a | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| NHI | health insurance web service component | 52EACB7CA2B4D0A5A869DF01079BF4D6 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| NHI | health insurance web service component | 52EACB7CA2B4D0A5A869DF01079BF4D6 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- health insurance web service component VendorNHI Affected 515BE7DE5BCE446177FEE8A6E0665093 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- health insurance web service component VendorNHI Affected 42fcc36541e716e23de77d5f325b186a Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- health insurance web service component VendorNHI Affected 52EACB7CA2B4D0A5A869DF01079BF4D6 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- health insurance web service component VendorNHI Affected 52EACB7CA2B4D0A5A869DF01079BF4D6 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-45918
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qhhp-8cc7-vf7w
References
More NHI Health Insurance Web Service Component vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-15901 NHI card’s web service component - Stack-based Buffer Overflow-1 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2022-15903 NHI card’s web service component - Stack-based Buffer Overflow-2 CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2022-15902 NHI card’s web service component - Heap-based Buffer Overflow CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
Sources
- CVE-2021-45918 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-45918 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qhhp-8cc7-vf7w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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