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CVE-2021-43411

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2021-11-07 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. When trying to exec a setuid executable, there's a window of time when the process already has the new privileges, but still refers to the old task and is accessible through the old process port. This can be exploited to get full root access.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Hurd

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References