CVE-2021-35937: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Rpm Rpm: before 4.18.0 (fixed in 4.18.0)

Published 2022-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.