CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-36795

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-08-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-276

Description

A permission issue in the Cohesity Linux agent may allow privilege escalation in version 6.5.1b to 6.5.1d-hotfix10, 6.6.0a to 6.6.0b-hotfix1. An underprivileged linux user, if certain environment criteria are met, can gain additional privileges.

Affected configurations

• cohesity linux agent (>= 6.5.1b <= 6.5.1d) • cohesity linux agent (>= 6.6.0a <= 6.6.0b) • cohesity linux agent 6.5.1d • cohesity linux agent 6.6.0b

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness

References