CVE-2018-7685
The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The decoupled download and installation steps in libzypp before 17.5.0 could lead to a corrupted RPM being left in the cache, where a later call would not display the corrupted RPM warning and allow installation, a problem caused by malicious warnings only displayed during download.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.30% probability · 22th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-358, CWE-347
- Affected
- opensuse/libzypp
- Source
- security@opentext.com
EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-August/004510.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624
- https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/
- http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-August/004510.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091624
- https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.