CVE-2017-7496 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-7496

fedora-arm-installer up to and including 1.99.16 is vulnerable to local...

Vulnerability Description

fedora-arm-installer up to and including 1.99.16 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to lack of checking the error condition of mount operation failure on unsafely created temporary directories.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Red Hat, Inc.

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Affected Software

fedora-arm-installer
Vulnerable Versions:
up to and including 1.99.16

Timeline

Official Publish: June 26th, 2017
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.