Title: CVE-2021-43527 NSS vulnerability in StarWind products

Note: StarWind will continue to update this vulnerability as new information becomes available

Vulnerability ID: SW-20221117-0001

Version: 1.0

Date: 2022-11-17

Status: Final

CVEs: CVE-2021-43527

  • Overview
  • Affected Products
  • Remediation
  • Revision History

Summary

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS.

 

Vulnerability Scoring

CVE CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score

CVE-2021-43527

 7.5 (HIGH) 9.8 (CRITICAL)

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

 

References

Resource Hyperlink
NVD NVD – CVE-2021-43527 (nist.gov)

 

Affected Products: 

StarWind VSAN build 14398

Not affected products:

StarWind SAN&NAS (all versions)

StarWind HCA and Command Center (all versions)

StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V (all versions)

StarWind VTL component (all versions for Windows Server)

StarWind V2V (all versions)

StarWind Tape Redirector component (all versions)

StarWind Deduplication Analyzer (all versions)

StarWind rPerf (all versions)

StarWind iSCSI Accelerator (all versions)

StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator (all versions)

Workaround

None.

 

Obtaining Software Fixes 

Software updates will be available in StarWind release notes – https://www.starwindsoftware.com/release-notes-build. To update the software, perform the steps described at the following link  – https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware.com/guidance/upgrading-from-any-starwind-version-to-any-starwind-version/ or contact support to perform an update. You can submit a support request using the following link https://www.starwindsoftware.com/support-form or contact Support directly via email support@starwind.com or via phone +1 617 829 4499.

This vulnerability article should be considered as the single source of current, up-to-date, authorized and accurate information posted by StarWind Software.

Revision History 

Revision # Date Comments
1.0 2022-11-17 Initial Public Release