CVE-2021-36795: Cohesity Linux Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A permission issue in the Cohesity Linux agent may allow privilege escalation in version 6.5.1b to 6.5.1d-hotfix10, 6.6.0a to 6.6.0b-hotfix1. An underprivileged linux user, if certain environment criteria are met, can gain additional privileges.

Affected products

• Cohesity Linux Agent: from 6.5.1b, up to and including 6.5.1d; from 6.6.0a, up to and including 6.6.0b; version 6.5.1d only; version 6.6.0b only

Published 2021-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.