CVE-2021-35937

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35937
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-35937.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-35937
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-08-25T20:15:09.243Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:35:16.748106Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
ea0d77c52e176e2876fdb1d07ad41e9e2635a93e
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
867c7cb199f94f65270afaf63f9f249c44ed7c9d
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.18.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

rpm-4.*
rpm-4.11.0-alpha
rpm-4.12.0-alpha
rpm-4.13.0-alpha
rpm-4.15.0-alpha
rpm-4.16.0-alpha
rpm-4.17.0-alpha
rpm-4.18.0-alpha1
rpm-4.18.0-alpha2
rpm-4.18.0-beta1
rpm-4.18.0-rc1
rpm-4.19.0-alpha
rpm-4.4-release
rpm-4.4.1-release
rpm-4.4.2-release
rpm-4.4.2.1-rc1
rpm-4.4.2.1-rc2
rpm-4.8.0-beta1
rpm-6.*
rpm-6.0.0-alpha
rpm-6.0.0-beta
rpm-6.0.0-beta2
rpm-6.0.0-release

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-35937.json"
unresolved_ranges 
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        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "34"
            }
        ]
    }
]