Published: 25/08/2022 Updated: 29/11/2022

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 0.8

VMScore: 0

A symbolic link issue was found in rpm. It occurs when rpm sets the desired permissions and credentials after installing a file. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to exchange the original file with a symbolic link to a security-critical file and escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

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Debian Bug report logs - #990543 rpm: CVE-2021-35937 CVE-2021-35938 CVE-2021-35939 Package: src:rpm; Maintainer for src:rpm is RPM packaging team <team+pkg-rpm@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 15:45:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream R ...

Synopsis Moderate: rpm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 88 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this upd ...

Synopsis Moderate: rpm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 90 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this upd ...

Synopsis Moderate: rpm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 86 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this upd ...

Synopsis Moderate: rpm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security i ...

Synopsis Moderate: rpm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for rpm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security i ...

CWE-59 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964114 https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1919 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157880 https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/25a435e90844ea98fe5eb7bef22c1aecf3a9c033 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35938 https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990543 https://nvd.nist.gov

CVE-2021-35938

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