CVE-2017-7549

Published Sep 21, 2017

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.4
Impact score
4.7
Exploitability score
1.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.3
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-377
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-59

Social media

Hype score
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