CVE-2021-35937

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35937
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-35937.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-35937
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-08-25T20:15:09Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:49:38Z
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.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "34"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux"
        }
    ]
}
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
Database specific
Show details
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.18.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

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-4.4-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

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-35937.json"