CVE-2017-9269 (GCVE-0-2017-9269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-01 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:36
VLAI
Title
lack of keypinning in libzypp could lead to repository switching
Summary
In libzypp before August 2018 GPG keys attached to YUM repositories were not correctly pinned, allowing malicious repository mirrors to silently downgrade to unsigned repositories with potential malicious content.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • Malicious mirrors could downgrade repositories from trusted signed repositories to unsigned malicious repositories.
  • CWE-757
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE libzypp Affected: unspecified , < 201808 (custom)
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Date Public
2017-08-03 00:00
Credits
Moritz Duge and Till Doerges from PRESENSE
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