suse · CVE-2017-7500

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 13:54:44 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 09:08:24 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7500 severity important: SUSE including 344 source package names (0.1.0:rpm-4.14.1-10.3.1, 0.1.75:rpm-4.14.1-10.3.1, …), 585 product×package rows across 157 product lines (Container caasp/v4/389-ds, Container caasp/v4/busybox, … (157 product lines)): Fixed 270, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 84.

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.

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