CVE-2017-7500

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-08-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Rpm (Rpm)
• Rpm (Unknown)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7500
• https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/c815822c8bdb138066ff58c624ae83e3a12ebfa9
• https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/f2d3be2a8741234faaa96f5fd05fdfdc75779a79