CVE-2021-20294
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: April 29, 2021 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:33 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943533Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26929CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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