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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-7480 json

rkhunter versions before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to file download over insecure channel when doing mirror update resulting into potential remo…

published 2017-07-21 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16501

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • rkhunter Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7480

  • rkhunter Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.4.0-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7480

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rkhunter Arch Linux 1.4.4-1

arch linux advisories AVG-334

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7480 updated cvss 8.1

rkhunter: File download via http might lead to RCE

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. rkhunter

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-300 Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint
  • CWE-417 Communication Channel Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.