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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2022-2488 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-53wm-97p6-582f | instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:12.059Z
Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-7549
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-21T21:29:00.447
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-7549
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