CVE-2017-7549

2017-09-2120:00:00

CWE-377

redhat

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "instack-undercloud",
    "vendor": "Red Hat, Inc.",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Pike, 12: v7.2.0, Ocata, 11: v6.1.0, Newton, 10: v5.3.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]