CVE-2013-6435

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

Race condition in RPM 4.11.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM file whose installation extracts the contents to temporary files before validating the signature, as demonstrated by installing a file in the /etc/cron.d directory.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
RPM: through 4.11.1; 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 (+102)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0529.html
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1974.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1975.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1976.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3129
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:251
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:056
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71558
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039811
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-22

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