CVE-2017-7500

HIGH

RPM - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (2)
rpm/rpm 4.14.0.0 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
rpm/rpm 4.13.0.0 - 4.13.0.2
Published Aug 13, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026