CVE-2021-3773

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-02-17. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2021-27042 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.3%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw in netfilter could allow a network-connected attacker to infer openvpn connection endpoint information for further use in traditional network attacks.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
61
EG Risk 61/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation5.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
5.3%
EPSS %ILE
92nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
5.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 16, 2022

Last Modified

March 28, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

Vulnerabilities in VPNs: Paper presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024 - The Citizen Lab

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2004949 – (CVE-2021-3773) CVE-2021-3773 kernel: lack of port sanity checking in natd and netfilter leads to exploit of OpenVPN clients

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004949

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkernel-rt-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el82022-05-10redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el82022-05-10redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 87× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 300 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 200 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 02:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-13 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-13 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
  5. 2026-11-12 01:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-12 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-12 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-11 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
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  10. 2026-11-11 01:01 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-11 01:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-10 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
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  14. 2026-11-10 00:14 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-10 00:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-09 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
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  18. 2026-11-08 23:28 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-08 23:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  23. 2026-11-07 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-06 21:55 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-11-06 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-06 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
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  5. 2026-11-05 21:09 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-05 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-05 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.3% · 92nd percentile
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  10. 2026-11-04 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  13. 2026-11-03 19:36 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-03 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-11-02 18:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  21. 2026-11-01 18:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  24. 2026-10-31 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  28. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  37. 2026-10-28 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3xjv-m925-6jcj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-3773?
CVE-2021-3773 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 16, 2022. A flaw in netfilter could allow a network-connected attacker to infer openvpn connection endpoint information for further use in traditional network attacks.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-3773 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-3773 was published on February 16, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of March 28, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-3773 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-3773 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (92nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-3773?
CVE-2021-3773 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-3773?
A fix for CVE-2021-3773 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-3773 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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