vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7500: rpm -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 13, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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