CVSS 3.1
6.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-20197
Medium (6.3). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-59, CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- broadcom:brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
- gnu:binutils
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
- netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node
- redhat:enterprise_linux