Vulnerability in Rpm

CVE-2014-8118

Integer overflow in RPM 4.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CPIO header in the payload section of an RPM file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.075 (94.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-8118: held from 0.076 to 0.075.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.076 · newest: 0.075 · change: -0.001

Affected products

  • Rpm — versions 4.0.2, 4.8.0, 4.0.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

References