MEDIUM 6.4
PYSEC-2017-152
Details
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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Affected packages
PyPI / instack
Introduced in:
0 No fixed version published yet for instack (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100407 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2557 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2649 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2687 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2693 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2726 [ADVISORY]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477403 [REPORT]