CVE-2017-7549 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2017-7549

A flaw was found in instack-undercloud 7.2.0 as packaged in...

Vulnerability 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.

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.

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Affected Vendor

Red Hat, Inc.

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Affected Software

instack-undercloud
Vulnerable Versions:
Pike, 12: v7.2.0, Ocata, 11: v6.1.0, Newton, 10: v5.3.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 21st, 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:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-377

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.