CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-45417
High (7.8). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
AIDE before 0.17.4 allows local users to obtain root privileges via crafted file metadata (such as XFS extended attributes or tmpfs ACLs), because of a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- advanced_intrusion_detection_environment_project:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:ovirt-node
- redhat:virtualization_host