Symlink following in RPM

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0052, the 44th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Aug 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

• CVE List: CVE-2021-35938
• NVD: CVE-2021-35938

References from the CNA

• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964114
• bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157880
• access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35938
• rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0
• github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1919
• github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/25a435e90844ea98fe5eb7bef22c1aecf3a9c033
• security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22 vendor-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.