CVE-2021-36795

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A permission issue in the Cohesity Linux agent may allow privilege escalation in version 6.5.1b to 6.5.1d-hotfix10, 6.6.0a to 6.6.0b-hotfix1. An underprivileged linux user, if certain environment criteria are met, can gain additional privileges.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-276

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/cohesity/SecAdvisory/blob/master/CVE-2021-36795.mdThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cohesity/SecAdvisory/blob/master/CVE-2021-36795.mdThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 6, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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