Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-23177
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23177
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23177
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024245
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024245
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fba4f123cc456d2b2538f811bb831483bf336bad
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fba4f123cc456d2b2538f811bb831483bf336bad
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1565
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1565
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00030.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00030.html