CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7480

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-07-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-300, CWE-417

Description

rkhunter versions before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to file download over insecure channel when doing mirror update resulting into potential remote code execution.

Affected configurations

• rootkit hunter project rootkit hunter (<= 1.4.2)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-300 Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint weakness

References