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CVE-2017-2621 — An access-control flaw was found in the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) service b

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.

CVSS
5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.07% (top 78.30%)
CWE
CWE-552
Published
2018-07-27T18:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T14:02:06.948Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red Hatopenstackheat — openstack-heat-8.0.0, openstack-heat-6.1.0, openstack-heat-7.0.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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