CVE-2021-3999EPSS p55.7%
CVE-2021-3999CVE-2021-3999
gnu / glibc
Description
A flaw was found in glibc. An off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow in getcwd() may lead to memory corruption when the size of the buffer is exactly 1. A local attacker who can control the input buffer and size passed to getcwd() in a setuid program could use this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code and escalate their privileges on the system.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.80% probability of exploitation · percentile 55.7% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-14 |