Security Advisory

CVE-2021-23177

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-23 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 19:05:55
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.