CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-35937
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367, CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• rpm rpm (< 4.18.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 Release Notes
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 Release Notes
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory