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CVE-2021-36795 (GCVE-0-2021-36795)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-06 16:58 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:01
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Summary
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.
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