CVE-2017-7549

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.4

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.079

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-7549 are affected in Python-instack-undercloud 7.2.0	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-7549 are affected in Python-instack-undercloud for linux 7.2.0	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234