Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting rpm-software-management/rpm package, versions [,4.16.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RPMSOFTWAREMANAGEMENTRPM-2377269
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 May 2021

CVE-2021-3421  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rpm-software-management/rpm to version 4.16.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. A flaw was found in the RPM package in the read functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can convince a victim to install a seemingly verifiable package or compromise an RPM repository, to cause RPM database corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This flaw affects RPM versions before 4.17.0-alpha.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1