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CVE-2017-7500 (GCVE-0-2017-7500)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-13 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
[UNKNOWN] rpm Affected: 4.13.0.2
Affected: 4.14.0
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Date Public
2017-07-03 00:00
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