CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-6435

7.6 HIGH Published 2014-12-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-12-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-74

Description

Race condition in RPM 4.11.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM file whose installation extracts the contents to temporary files before validating the signature, as demonstrated by installing a file in the /etc/cron.d directory.

Affected configurations

• rpm rpm (<= 4.11.1) • rpm rpm 1.2 • rpm rpm 1.3 • rpm rpm 1.3.1 • rpm rpm 1.4 • rpm rpm 1.4.1 • rpm rpm 1.4.2 • rpm rpm 1.4.2\/a • rpm rpm 1.4.3 • rpm rpm 1.4.4 • rpm rpm 1.4.5 • rpm rpm 1.4.6 • rpm rpm 1.4.7 • rpm rpm 2.0 • rpm rpm 2.0.1 • rpm rpm 2.0.2 • rpm rpm 2.0.3 • rpm rpm 2.0.4 • rpm rpm 2.0.5 • rpm rpm 2.0.6 • rpm rpm 2.0.7 • rpm rpm 2.0.8 • rpm rpm 2.0.9 • rpm rpm 2.0.10 • rpm rpm 2.0.11 • rpm rpm 2.1 • rpm rpm 2.1.1 • rpm rpm 2.1.2 • rpm rpm 2.2 • rpm rpm 2.2.1 • rpm rpm 2.2.2 • rpm rpm 2.2.3 • rpm rpm 2.2.3.10 • rpm rpm 2.2.3.11 • rpm rpm 2.2.4 • rpm rpm 2.2.5 • rpm rpm 2.2.6 • rpm rpm 2.2.7 • rpm rpm 2.2.8 • rpm rpm 2.2.9 • rpm rpm 2.2.10 • rpm rpm 2.2.11 • rpm rpm 2.3 • rpm rpm 2.3.1 • rpm rpm 2.3.2 • rpm rpm 2.3.3 • rpm rpm 2.3.4 • rpm rpm 2.3.5 • rpm rpm 2.3.6 • rpm rpm 2.3.7 • rpm rpm 2.3.8 • rpm rpm 2.3.9 • rpm rpm 2.4.1 • rpm rpm 2.4.2 • rpm rpm 2.4.3 • rpm rpm 2.4.4 • rpm rpm 2.4.5 • rpm rpm 2.4.6 • rpm rpm 2.4.8 • rpm rpm 2.4.9 … and 43 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness

References