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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2021-39686 json

In several functions of binder.c, there is a possible way to represent the wrong domain to SELinux due to a race condition.

published 2022-03-16 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-26043

cvss
7.0
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In several functions of binder.c, there is a possible way to represent the wrong domain to SELinux due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-200688826References: Upstream kernel

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.15.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-39686

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-100.113
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1066.69
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1065.69
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1063.66
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1015.16
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1056.58
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1070.73
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1034.35

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39686

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-39686 updated cvss 8.4

kernel: race condition in the Android binder driver could lead to incorrect security checks

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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