Vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Backup
CVE-2021-23239
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.
EPSS: 0.010 (60.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 2.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Netapp Cloud_backup
- Netapp Hci_management_node
- Netapp Solidfire
- Sudo_project Sudo
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 32, 33
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-23239?
- CVE-2021-23239 is a low-severity vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Backup, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 2.5/10. Published 2021-01-12.
- How severe is CVE-2021-23239?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2021-23239 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.