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Vulnerability details: VCID-y5u5-dgk3-u3da
Vulnerability ID VCID-y5u5-dgk3-u3da
Aliases CVE-2021-45417
Summary A vulnerability has been found in AIDE which can lead to root privilege escalation.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45417.json
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
epss 0.00038 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
cvssv3.1 7 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45417.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45417
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45417
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2041489 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041489
GLSA-202311-07 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-07
RHSA-2022:0440 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0440
RHSA-2022:0441 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0441
RHSA-2022:0456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0456
RHSA-2022:0464 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0464
RHSA-2022:0472 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0472
RHSA-2022:0473 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0473
RHSA-2022:0540 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0540
RHSA-2022:1263 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1263
USN-5243-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5243-1/
USN-5243-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5243-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45417.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.11285
EPSS Score 0.00038
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:58:44.218935+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-07 38.0.0