CVE-2021-4300

CRITICALNVD 6.39.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-01-05. NVD baseline CVSS 6.3; sources differ by 3.5.

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

Also known asEUVD-2021-34135 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 6.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A vulnerability has been found in ghostlander Halcyon and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function CBlock::AddToBlockIndex of the file src/main.cpp of the component Block Verification. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.1.1.0-hal is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 0675b25ae9cc10b5fdc8ea3a32c642979762d45e. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-217417 was assigned to this vulnerability.

CVSS v3
6.3
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

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.
Exploitation0.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
54th
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
0.7% 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” 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

January 4, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

Halcyon v1.1.1.0

Patch available: ghostlander/Halcyon v1.1.1.0-hal

https://github.com/ghostlander/Halcyon/releases/tag/v1.1.1.0-hal
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 0675b25ae9cc (ghostlander/Halcyon)

Patch available: ghostlander/Halcyon v1.1.1.0-hal (contains commit 0675b25ae9cc)

https://github.com/ghostlander/Halcyon/commit/0675b25ae9cc10b5fdc8ea3a32c642979762d45e

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 64× 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 285 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 185 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 14:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-12 16:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-12 16:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 18:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 18:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-11 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  9. 2026-11-10 21:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-10 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-10 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  12. 2026-11-09 23:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-09 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-11-09 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  15. 2026-11-09 01:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-09 01:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-11-08 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  18. 2026-11-08 03:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-08 03:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-11-07 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  21. 2026-11-07 05:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-07 05:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-11-06 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  24. 2026-11-06 08:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-06 08:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-05 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  2. 2026-11-05 10:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-05 10:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-04 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  5. 2026-11-04 12:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-04 12:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-03 20:55 UTCOSV refresh
  8. 2026-11-03 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  9. 2026-11-03 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-02 16:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-02 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-02 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  13. 2026-11-01 19:05 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-01 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  16. 2026-10-31 21:18 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-10-31 21:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-10-30 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  23. 2026-10-30 01:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  26. 2026-10-29 04:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  29. 2026-10-28 06:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  32. 2026-10-27 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  34. 2026-10-26 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  38. 2026-10-25 10:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  51. 2026-10-20 21:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  61. 2026-10-18 00:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  67. 2026-10-16 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  73. 2026-10-13 22:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hxx9-636q-j4p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-4300?
CVE-2021-4300 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 4, 2023. A vulnerability has been found in ghostlander Halcyon and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function CBlock::AddToBlockIndex of the file src/main.cpp of the component Block Verification. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can be launched…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-4300 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-4300 was published on January 4, 2023. 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 November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-4300 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-4300 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (54th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-4300?
CVE-2021-4300 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.3 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-4300?
A fix for CVE-2021-4300 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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