CVE-2021-35938

EPSS 0.5%CWE-59

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

25 Aug 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A symbolic link issue was found in rpm. It occurs when rpm sets the desired permissions and credentials after installing a file. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to exchange the original file with a symbolic link to a security-critical file and escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected products

n/a · RPM

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35938 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964114 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157880 https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/25a435e90844ea98fe5eb7bef22c1aecf3a9c033 https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1919 https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22