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CVE-2021-45848Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ 3.0.3 and later allows a user with a modified Soulseek client to crash Nicotine+ by…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ 3.0.3 and later allows a user with a modified Soulseek client to crash Nicotine+ by sending a file download request with a file path containing a null character.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPInicotine-plusGHSA-p4v2-r99v-wjc2 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/issues/1777 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-066232000e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202210-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1488 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p4v2-r99v-wjc2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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