CVE-2021-35939

Vulners
Cvelist
CVE-2021-35939

2022-08-2600:00:00

CWE-59

redhat

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

32.3%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "product": "RPM",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "Fixed in RPM-v4.18",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]