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Vulnerability CVE-2021-20197
Published: 2021-03-26
Description: |
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink. |
Type:
CWE-59 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
3.3/10 |
4.9/10 |
3.4/10 |
Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Medium |
No required |
Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
Partial |
None |
References: |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945
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