CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7549

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-377, CWE-59

Description

A flaw was found in instack-undercloud 7.2.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Pike, 6.1.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Oacta, 5.3.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Newton, where pre-install and security policy scripts used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploit this flaw to conduct a symbolic-link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected configurations

• openstack instack-undercloud 7.2.0 • openstack instack-undercloud 6.1.0 • openstack instack-undercloud 5.3.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References