Security Advisory

CVE-2017-7500

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-08-13 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:04:11
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 7.3
State PUBLISHED

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.