CVE-2017-7549

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.4/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-377 CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 21, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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