Security Advisory

CVE-2021-35939

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-26 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 00:40:47
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

It was found that the fix for CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501 was incomplete: the check was only implemented for the parent directory of the file to be created. A local unprivileged user who owns another ancestor directory could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.