Medium
Security advisory
In WhiteBeam 0.2.0 through 0.2.1 before 0.2.2, a user with local access to a server can bypass the allow-list functionality because a file can be truncated in the OpenFileDescriptor action before the VerifyCanWrite action is performed.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-47688
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In WhiteBeam 0.2.0 through 0.2.1 before 0.2.2, a user with local access to a server can bypass the allow-list functionality because a file can be truncated in the OpenFileDescriptor action before the VerifyCanWrite action is performed.
osv:CVE-2021-47688
Complete source record
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