ghsa-53wm-97p6-582f
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:07
Modified
2024-04-22 22:48
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files
Details

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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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "instack-undercloud"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "7.2.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-7549"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-377",
      "CWE-59"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-22T22:48:23Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-09-21T21:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-53wm-97p6-582f",
  "modified": "2024-04-22T22:48:23Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:07:33Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7549"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7549"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://opendev.org/openstack/instack-undercloud"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170907040549/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files"
}


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