CVE-2017-2621 (GCVE-0-2017-2621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-27 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:02
VLAI
Summary
An access-control flaw was found in the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) service before 8.0.0, 6.1.0 and 7.0.2 where a service log directory was improperly made world readable. A malicious system user could exploit this flaw to access sensitive information.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1464 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96280 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat openstack-heat Affected: openstack-heat-8.0.0
Affected: openstack-heat-6.1.0
Affected: openstack-heat-7.0.2
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Date Public
2017-02-15 00:00
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