Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2021-3998 First vendor Publication 2022-08-24
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-12

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact None
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A flaw was found in glibc. The realpath() function can mistakenly return an unexpected value, potentially leading to information leakage and disclosure of sensitive data.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3998

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 129
Application 1

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221020-0003/
MISC https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3998
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024633
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3998
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28770
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=84d2d0fe20bdf94feed82b2...
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=ee8d5e33adb284601c00c94...
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/4

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Date Informations
2023-02-13 05:27:32
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2022-11-08 09:27:30
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2022-10-21 05:27:27
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2022-09-02 21:27:17
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2022-08-29 21:27:17
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2022-08-24 21:27:11
  • First insertion