CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-20197
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.3
EPSS
0.30%
Original NVD Description
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink.
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