CVE-2021-35937
MEDIUM
6.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 25, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:57 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraEnterprise LinuxRpm
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Severity
MEDIUM6.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125Vendor AdvisoryThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdfCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- HIGH
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59CWE-367
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