CVE-2017-7549

N/A
Published: September 21, 2017 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:24 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsInstack UndercloudOpenStack

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (7)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-377CWE-59

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