CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-35937

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.

6.4 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.5 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125 Issue Tracking Patch
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf Exploit Technical Description
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937 Vendor Advisory
https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-08-25 08:15

Updated : 2022-11-16 08:05

NVD link : CVE-2021-35937

Mitre link : CVE-2021-35937

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-367

CWE-59