CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7500

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-08-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

It was found that rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic link to a directory, possibly changing ownership and permissions of an arbitrary directory, and RPM files being placed in an arbitrary destination. An attacker, with write access to a directory in which a subdirectory will be installed, could redirect that directory to an arbitrary location and gain root privilege.

Affected configurations

• rpm rpm (>= 4.13.0.0 < 4.13.0.2) • rpm rpm 4.14.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References