CVE-2018-7685

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7685

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7685.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed17.6.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed17.6.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed17.6.1-1
debian debiansidfixed17.6.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed17.6.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.