GHSA-53wm-97p6-582fMediumCVSS 6.4
instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files
🔗 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)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7549
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7549
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170907040549/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/instack/PYSEC-2017-152.yaml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-53wm-97p6-582f