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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59CWE-59
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- RPM
- Published
- 8/13/2018
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
rpm : rpmrpm : rpmrpm : rpm
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