CVE-2013-0261

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-01-31
Bugzilla:
908101: CVE-2013-0261 OpenStack packstack: insecure use of /tmp in manifest creation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

(1) installer/basedefs.py and (2) modules/ospluginutils.py in PackStack allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name in /tmp.

Find out more about CVE-2013-0261 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
OpenStack Folsom (openstack-packstack) RHSA-2013:0595 2013-03-05

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Kurt Seifried of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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