CVE-2021-36795

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in cohesity linux agent. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A permission issue in the Cohesity Linux agent may allow privilege escalation in version 6.5.1b to 6.5.1d-hotfix10, 6.6.0a to 6.6.0b-hotfix1. An underprivileged linux user, if certain environment criteria are met, can gain additional privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-276
Published: 2021-08-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

cohesity:linux_agent

References

https://github.com/cohesity/SecAdvisory/blob/master/CVE-2021-36795.md
https://github.com/cohesity/SecAdvisory/blob/master/CVE-2021-36795.md

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