CVE-2021-35938: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A symbolic link issue was found in rpm. It occurs when rpm sets the desired permissions and credentials after installing a file. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to exchange the original file with a symbolic link to a security-critical file and escalate their privileges on the system. 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 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.