CVE-2017-7549

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-09-21

Updated: 2023-02-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium