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.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2017-09-21T21:29:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-377", "CWE-59" ], "severity": "MODERATE", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-22T22:48:23Z" }