CVE-2017-7500

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 35 %ileDEEUFRUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.41% (35th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.07.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.3 · impact 5.9

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:7.5
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
[UNKNOWN] rpm≤ 4.13.0.2enisa_euvdEU
[UNKNOWN] rpm≤ 4.14.0enisa_euvdEU
rpm rpm4.13.0.0 → 4.13.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rpm rpm= 4.14.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0877RPM: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2018-07-26csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in RPM ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMwareFrançais2026-10-26vendor · certfrFR

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd certfr NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-08-13modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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