CVE-2017-7500: Rpm

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Rpm Rpm: from 4.13.0.0, before 4.13.0.2 (fixed in 4.13.0.2); version 4.14.0.0 only

Published 2018-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.