CVE-2021-35939
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 58% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
It was found that the fix for CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501 was incomplete: the check was only implemented for the parent directory of the file to be created. A local unprivileged user who owns another ancestor directory could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Affected products
n/a · RPMReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35939https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964129https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/96ec957e281220f8e137a2d5eb23b83a6377d556https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1919https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22