Description
A race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59CWE-367
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- RPM
- Published
- 8/25/2022
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
rpm : rpmredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxfedoraproject : fedora
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