CVE-2021-35937

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.

• CWE-59
• CWE-367

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0Release Notes
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22Third Party Advisory
• https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0Release Notes
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22Third Party Advisory
• https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

Published

Aug 25, 2022

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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