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CVE-2021-35937

Published: Aug 25, 2022

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	RPM	affected `Fixed in rpm v4.18.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf

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