CVE-2021-35937

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 25, 2022
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jun 29, 2021

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'), CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
RPMn/a	Fixed in rpm v4.18.0Affected

References

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

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