CVE-2021-20197: Gnu binutils vulnerability
Gnu · binutils
Vendor fix available · Affected: Gnu binutils · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 23% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- binutilsbinutils 2.35
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Gnu
- Published
- March 2021
CoverageNo articles yet
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