# Impact of CVE-2021-38297 on Mender

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/impact-of-cve-2021-38297-on-mender/4225>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** yocto, security, dunfell\
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/impact-of-cve-2021-38297-on-mender/4225 "2021-10-25T07:22:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![deffo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@deffo](https://hub.mender.io/u/deffo)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/impact-of-cve-2021-38297-on-mender/4225/1 "2021-10-25T07:22:36Z")

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Hi there!

How do you consider the impact of CVE-2021-38297 [1] on Mender? Do you think this is critical?

Best regards

[1] [NVD - CVE-2021-38297](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38297)

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**Author:** ![oleorhagen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/oleorhagen/32/297_2.png) [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/impact-of-cve-2021-38297-on-mender/4225/2 "2021-10-26T15:59:54Z")

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We never ship anything ourselves built with these parameters, so I would consider us not effected by this.

Thanks for checking in 🙂