CVE-2021-20204

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A heap memory corruption problem (use after free) can be triggered in libgetdata v0.10.0 when processing maliciously crafted dirfile databases. This degrades the confidentiality, integrity and availability of third-party software that uses libgetdata as a library. This vulnerability may lead to arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation depending on input/skills of attacker.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34, 35
Getdata Project Getdata: 0.10.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956348
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00015.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43JTGEMYMCTHD3LHFD7ENBNSWCNBCYEY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GB7T7DW7XRPJOUE25ZE7GF244FPCHBWY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OE23HBLIVKVPOQ5MVADWPOCFMREVF4QZ/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956348
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00015.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43JTGEMYMCTHD3LHFD7ENBNSWCNBCYEY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GB7T7DW7XRPJOUE25ZE7GF244FPCHBWY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OE23HBLIVKVPOQ5MVADWPOCFMREVF4QZ/

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