libzypp does not reevaluate malicious rpms once downloaded
CVE-2018-7685

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Suse
Status
Libzypp
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 August 2018

What is CVE-2018-7685?

The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings only displayed during download.

Affected Version(s)

libzypp < 17.5.0

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624
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https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/
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http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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