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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Red Hat, Inc. instack-undercloud
Pike, 12: v7.2.0, Ocata, 11: v6.1.0, Newton, 10: v5.3.0affected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403 ↗