{ "data_version": "4.0", "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2021-20197", "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-59", "cweId": "CWE-59" } ] } ] }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "binutils", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "=", "version_value": "binutils 2.35" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743" }, { "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945" }, { "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30" }, { "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/" } ] } }