When was CVE-2021-40490 disclosed?

CVE-2021-40490 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 3, 2021, with the most recent update on November 21, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2021-40490 actively exploited?

CVE-2021-40490 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 11.2% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-40490?

CVE-2021-40490 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0 (NVD).

How do I remediate CVE-2021-40490?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2021-40490, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

CVE-2021-40490

HIGHNVD 7.07.0—

7.0

A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.

CVSS v3: 7.0
EG Score: 7.0(medium)
EPSS: 11.2%
KEV: Not listed

References (14)

cve@mitrehttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=9e445093e523f3277081314c864f708fd4bd34aa
cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html
cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html
cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6VS2DLGT7TK7URKAS2KWJL3S533SGVA/
cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJGX3DMJT6MRBW2XEF3TWVHYWZW3DG3N/
cve@mitrehttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211004-0001/
cve@mitrehttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=9e445093e523f3277081314c864f708fd4bd34aa
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6VS2DLGT7TK7URKAS2KWJL3S533SGVA/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJGX3DMJT6MRBW2XEF3TWVHYWZW3DG3N/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211004-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978

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