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CVE-2017-7480

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-300

Description

rkhunter versions before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to file download over insecure channel when doing mirror update resulting into potential remote code execution.

Affected products

• Rootkit Hunter Project Rootkit Hunter: through 1.4.2

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/643
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-11
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/643
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-11

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