CVE-2021-3997

MEDIUM

Systemd < 250.2 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in systemd. An uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles may lead to a denial of service at boot time when too many nested directories are created in /tmp.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (6)
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
systemd_project/systemd 240 - 250.2
Published Aug 23, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026