CVE-2021-20197

MediumCVSS 6.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 26, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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