CVE-2017-7501
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 68% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
It was found that versions of rpm before 4.13.0.2 use temporary files with predictable names when installing an RPM. An attacker with ability to write in a directory where files will be installed could create symbolic links to an arbitrary location and modify content, and possibly permissions to arbitrary files, which could be used for denial of service or possibly privilege escalation.
Affected products
Red Hat, Inc. · rpmReferences
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/404ef011c300207cdb1e531670384564aae04bdchttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-22