Medium severity · published Jul 27, 2018
CVE-2017-2621
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
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HE
Heat · Openstack
before 8.0.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
9; 10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2621
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2621
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96280
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1243
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1464
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2621
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