It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-573 advisory.

    A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass     the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root     privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-35937)

    A symbolic link issue was found in rpm. It occurs when rpm sets the desired permissions and credentials     after installing a file. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to exchange the original file with     a symbolic link to a security-critical file and escalate their privileges on the system. The highest     threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2021-35938)

    It was found that the fix for CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501 was incomplete: the check was only     implemented for the parent directory of the file to be created. A local unprivileged user who owns another     ancestor directory could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

    This issue requires that the attacker have admin privileges on the target system, and be able to own and     modify system files. Considering the tradeoff between the stability of Amazon Linux and the impact of     CVE-2021-35939 a fix will not be provided for Amazon Linux 1, Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023 at this     time. (CVE-2021-35939)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : python3-rpm, rpm, rpm-apidocs (ALAS2023-2024-573)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192453

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