CVE-2021-35937

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-35937
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-25 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:36:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Rpm Rpm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rpm.org - Releases MISC rpm.org
1964125 – (CVE-2021-35937) CVE-2021-35937 rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf MISC www.usenix.org
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
RPM: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-22) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161314 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rpm (ELSA-2024-0463)
  • 161331 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for rpm (ELSA-2024-0647)
  • 242744 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0424)
  • 242754 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0463)
  • 242757 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0435)
  • 242810 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0582)
  • 242816 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0647)
  • 242842 Red Hat Update for rpm (RHSA-2024:0453)
  • 357349 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for rpm : ALAS2023-2024-573
  • 379634 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for rpm (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0030)
  • 502949 Alpine Linux Security Update for rpm
  • 505818 Alpine Linux Security Update for rpm
  • 672363 EulerOS Security Update for rpm (EulerOS-SA-2022-2741)
  • 672374 EulerOS Security Update for rpm (EulerOS-SA-2022-2776)
  • 672457 EulerOS Security Update for rpm (EulerOS-SA-2022-2829)
  • 672471 EulerOS Security Update for rpm (EulerOS-SA-2022-2855)
  • 710651 Gentoo Linux RPM Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-22)
  • 903713 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rpm (10783)
  • 903811 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rpm (10766)
  • 904119 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for rpm (10766-1)
  • 941549 AlmaLinux Security Update for rpm (ALSA-2024:0463)
  • 941568 AlmaLinux Security Update for rpm (ALSA-2024:0647)
  • 961111 Rocky Linux Security Update for rpm (RLSA-2024:0647)
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