CVSS 3.1
6.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-35937
Medium (6.4). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-367, CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- rpm:rpm