medium6.4
CVE-2021-35937
A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Rpm | Rpm | before 4.18.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 34 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125
- https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125
- https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf