CVE-2021-21284

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Published 2024-01-31 · Modified 2026-03-13
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

moby Access to remapped root allows privilege escalation to real root

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21284.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21284

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:20.10.3-1
debian debianbookwormfixed20.10.3+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed20.10.3+dfsg1-1
debian debianforkyfixed20.10.3+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed20.10.3+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed20.10.3+dfsg1-1
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gogithub.com/moby/moby<19.3.1519.3.15
golang Gogithub.com/moby/moby>=20.10.0-beta1,<20.10.320.10.3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.