GHSA-53wm-97p6-582fMediumCVSS 6.4

instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files

Published
May 13, 2022
Last Modified
June 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/instack-undercloud:<= 7.2.0

🔗 References (12)