CVE-2014-0022

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2014-0022 · Published 26/01/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-0022 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting yum (baseurl).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 86.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
yum baseurl	`= 3.4.0= 3.4.1= 3.4.2≤ 3.4.3`	No fix yet

Description

The installUpdates function in yum-cron/yum-cron.py in yum 3.4.3 and earlier does not properly check the return value of the sigCheckPkg function, which allows remote attackers to bypass the RMP package signing restriction via an unsigned package.

References

secunia.com/advisories/56637 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/65119
yum.baseurl.org/gitweb
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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