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CVE-2021-43305: Heap buffer overflow in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 76.6% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: clickhouse (Debian:10) 18.16.1+ds-4+deb10u1; clickhouse (Debian:12) 18.16.1+ds-7.3.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to clickhouse (Debian:10) 18.16.1+ds-4+deb10u1; clickhouse (Debian:12) 18.16.1+ds-7.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Heap buffer overflow in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query. There is no verification that the copy operations in the LZ4::decompressImpl loop and especially the arbitrary copy operation wildCopy<copy_amount>(op, ip, copy_end), don’t exceed the destination buffer’s limits. This issue is very similar to CVE-2021-43304, but the vulnerable copy operation is in a different wildCopy call.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Mar 14, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
1.6% · 76th percentile

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Action score

36

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 1.6%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
clickhouseclickhouse
debiandebian linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • clickhouse clickhousebefore 21.10.2.15
  • debian debian linux10.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (JFROG). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • yandex clickhouse

    • unspecified and later · before 21.10.2.15-stableaffected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:10clickhousebefore 18.16.1+ds-4+deb10u118.16.1+ds-4+deb10u1
Debian:12clickhousebefore 18.16.1+ds-7.318.16.1+ds-7.3

Same product

clickhouse: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2019-16535In all versions of ClickHouse before 19.14, an OOB read, OOB write and integer underflow in decompression algorithms can be used to achieve
    40Plan
  • CVE-2018-14671In ClickHouse before 18.10.3, unixODBC allowed loading arbitrary shared objects from the file system which led to a Remote Code Execution vu
    40Plan
  • CVE-2018-14670Incorrect configuration in deb package in ClickHouse before 1.1.54131 could lead to unauthorized use of the database.
    40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-42391Mar 14, 2022 · Divide-by-zero in Clickhouse's Gorilla compression codec when parsing a malicious query.
    26Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-43304Mar 14, 2022 · Heap buffer overflow in Clickhouse's LZ4 compression codec when parsing a malicious query.
    36Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-44010Nov 23, 2023 · An issue was discovered in ClickHouse before 22.9.1.2603.
    30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:clickhouse18.16.1+ds-7.3 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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