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CVE-2017-7549
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-21T21:29:00.447 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:35.360

Summary

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 products

openstack — instack-undercloud

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References

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