CVE-2021-32553

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32553
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32553.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-32553
Downstream
Published
2021-06-12T04:15:12Z
Modified
2026-07-08T07:11:39Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-17 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "20.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "20.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "20.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "20.10"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "21.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "21.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "21.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "21.10"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openjdk/jdk

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
Events
Introduced
dfacda488bfbe2e11e8d607a6d08527710286982
Last Affected
dfacda488bfbe2e11e8d607a6d08527710286982
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "17"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "17"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

Other
17
jdk-17+35
jdk-17-ga

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32553.json"