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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EUVD 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 Github GHSA GHSA-53wm-97p6-582f instack-undercloud vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:12.059Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7549

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-21T21:29:00.447

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7549

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-08-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7549 - Bugzilla

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