CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3521
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
Description
There is a flaw in RPM's signature functionality. OpenPGP subkeys are associated with a primary key via a "binding signature." RPM does not check the binding signature of subkeys prior to importing them. If an attacker is able to add or socially engineer another party to add a malicious subkey to a legitimate public key, RPM could wrongly trust a malicious signature. The greatest impact of this flaw is to data integrity. To exploit this flaw, an attacker must either compromise an RPM repository or convince an administrator to install an untrusted RPM or public key. It is strongly recommended to only use RPMs and public keys from trusted sources.
Affected configurations
• rpm rpm (< 4.17.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3521 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941098 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/bd36c5dc9fb6d90c46fbfed8c2d67516fc571ec8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1795/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3521 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941098 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/bd36c5dc9fb6d90c46fbfed8c2d67516fc571ec8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1795/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 Third Party Advisory