CVE-2021-35937

 

Published at: - 25-08-2022 10:15

Last modified: - 16-11-2022 09:05

Total changes: - 6

Description

A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125
• https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937
• https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0
• GLSA-202210-22-Third Party Advisory

 

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