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CVE-2021-3864

CVE-2021-3864

EPSS 0.7%CWE-284
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
26 Aug 2022Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed its descendants. The prerequisite is a SUID binary that sets real UID equal to effective UID, and real GID equal to effective GID. The descendant will then have a dumpable value set to 1. As a result, if the descendant process crashes and core_pattern is set to a relative value, its core dump is stored in the current directory with uid:gid permissions. An unprivileged local user with eligible root SUID binary could use this flaw to place core dumps into root-owned directories, potentially resulting in escalation of privileges.
Affected products
n/a · kernel

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