CVE-2021-4197

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4197
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-4197.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-4197
Downstream
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Published
2022-03-23T20:15:10Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An unprivileged write to the file handler flaw in the Linux kernel's control groups and namespaces subsystem was found in the way users have access to some less privileged process that are controlled by cgroups and have higher privileged parent process. It is actually both for cgroup2 and cgroup1 versions of control groups. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

References

Affected packages