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CVE-2021-20197 (GCVE-0-2021-20197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 16:47 – Updated: 2025-12-03 15:08
VLAI
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-03 15:08 UTC
CWE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a binutils Affected: binutils 2.35
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