How severe is CVE-2021-4197?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2021-4197?

This is classified as CWE-287, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2021-4197

HIGH Year: 2021

CVSS v3 Score

7.8

High

CVSS v2 Score

7.2

High

Weakness Type

CWE-287

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Vulnerability Description

An unprivileged write to the file handler flaw in the Linux kernel's control groups and namespaces subsystem was found in the way users have access to some less privileged process that are controlled by cgroups and have higher privileged parent process. It is actually both for cgroup2 and cgroup1 versions of control groups. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

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