CVE-2017-7549
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.
Published:Aug 14, 2017
Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
EPS:Sep 21, 2017
EPSS Score:0.00074
CVSS Score:6.4
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Openstack
Product
Instack-undercloud
Openstack
Instack-undercloud
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Openstack
Redhat
Openstack
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Openstack-director
Redhat
Openstack-director
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
