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.
problem types: CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'), CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: RPM
versions:
version: Fixed in rpm v4.18.0, status: affected
}