CVE-2021-43395An issue was discovered in illumos before f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90, OmniOS Community Edition r151038, OpenIndiana Hipster…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
An issue was discovered in illumos before f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90, OmniOS Community Edition r151038, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04, and SmartOS 20210923. A local unprivileged user can cause a deadlock and kernel panic via crafted rename and rmdir calls on tmpfs filesystems. Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 is also affected.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/069654420de4aade43c63c43cd2896e66945fc8a/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_vnops.c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b3403853e80914bd0aade9b5b605da4878078173/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_dir.c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.tribblix.org/relnotes.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://jgardner100.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/security-heads-up/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9e4f27f8c2f959/security-heads-up-illumos14424 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/14424 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-30330 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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