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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS6.4
Exploit probability—
ProductOpenstack Instack-undercloud
PublishedSep 21, 2017
First seenSep 21, 2017
Weakness typeCWE-377CWE-377
How to fix
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| openstack instack-undercloud | 7.2.0, 6.1.0, 5.3.0 | — |
| instack-undercloudPyPI | v ≤ 7.2.0 | — |
| instackPyPI | v ≤ 7.2.0 | — |
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