CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-37786 — Bag Covid Certificate security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 4.6

Certain Federal Office of Information Technology Systems and Telecommunication FOITT products are affected by improper handling of exceptional conditions. This affects COVID Certificate App IOS 2.2.0 and below affected, patch in progress and COVID Certificate Check App IOS 2.2.0 and below affected, patch in progress. A denial of service (physically proximate) could be caused by scanning a crafted QR code.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.6 (3.1)
Published
2021-09-27
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-755

Affected products

  • bag / covid_certificate

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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