CVE-2017-7501

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{"acknowledgement": "This issue was discovered by Cedric Buissart (Red Hat).", "bugzilla": {"description": "rpm: Following symlinks to files when installing packages allows privilege escalation", "id": "1452133", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452133"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.3", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-59", "details": ["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.", "It was found that rpm uses 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."], "name": "CVE-2017-7501", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "rpm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "rpm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "rpm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}], "public_date": "2017-07-03T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7501\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7501"], "statement": "Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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