CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-26720
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh in the Debian avahi package through 0.8-4 is executed as root via /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create arbitrary empty files via a symlink attack on files under /run/avahi-daemon. NOTE: this only affects the packaging for Debian GNU/Linux (used indirectly by SUSE), not the upstream Avahi product.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- avahi:avahi
- debian:debian_linux
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982796
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1870824
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180827
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00009.html
- https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.8-4_changelog