Description
There is a flaw in RPM's signature functionality. OpenPGP subkeys are associated with a primary key via a "binding signature." RPM does not check the binding signature of subkeys prior to importing them. If an attacker is able to add or socially engineer another party to add a malicious subkey to a legitimate public key, RPM could wrongly trust a malicious signature. The greatest impact of this flaw is to data integrity. To exploit this flaw, an attacker must either compromise an RPM repository or convince an administrator to install an untrusted RPM or public key. It is strongly recommended to only use RPMs and public keys from trusted sources.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-22
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3521
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941098
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/bd36c5dc9fb6d90c46fbfed8c2d67516fc571ec8
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1795/
Scores
CVSS v3
4.7
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-347
Status
published
Products (1)
rpm/rpm
< 4.17.1
Published
Aug 22, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026