CVE-2017-7549 (GCVE-0-2017-7549)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-21 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:04
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CWE
Summary
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.
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Red Hat, Inc. instack-undercloud Version: Pike, 12: v7.2.0, Ocata, 11: v6.1.0, Newton, 10: v5.3.0
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