CVE-2017-7500
At a glance
- Severity
- HIGH 7.3
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.41 % · percentile 35 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Modified
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
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.0 | HIGH 7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | redhat |
| CVSS 3.0 | HIGH 7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.0 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
| CVSS 2.0 | HIGH 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2017-16517
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2017-7500
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0218 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-1057 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0969 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0756 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0958 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0506 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Secure Analytics · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0305 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2022-AVI-650 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Juniper · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 4.13.0.0 < 4.13.0.2cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:4.14.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:4.14.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| [UNKNOWN] · rpm | affected 4.13.0.2 ; affected 4.14.0 |
References
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/c815822c8bdb138066ff58c624ae83e3a12ebfa9
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/f2d3be2a8741234faaa96f5fd05fdfdc75779a79
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7500
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |