CVE-2021-40490
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.003 · 23 %ileEURUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.31% (23rd) EPSS
CVSS 4.4 · medium
Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
7.0
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.4–7
v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 5.9
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weaknesses
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affected products (45)
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showing 20 of 45
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advisories (1)
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- PUB-A-1995796762022-01-01vendor · osvUS
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also known as (5)
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sources
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references (42)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-40490cnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=9e445093e523f3277081314c864f708fd4bd34aacnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6VS2DLGT7TK7URKAS2KWJL3S533SGVA/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJGX3DMJT6MRBW2XEF3TWVHYWZW3DG3N/cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164348/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-5096-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164561/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-5113-1.htmlcnnvd
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