fedora-arm-installer up to and including 1.99.16 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to lack of checking the error condition of mount operation failure on unsafely created temporary directories.
Published 2017-06-26 14:29:00
Updated 2019-10-09 23:29:39
Source Red Hat, Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Gain privilege

Products affected by CVE-2017-7496

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-7496

0.04%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 6 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2017-7496

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
4.4
MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
3.4
6.4
NIST
7.0
HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
1.0
5.9
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2017-7496

  • [PLANNED FOR DEPRECATION. SEE MAINTENANCE NOTES AND CONSIDER CWE-252, CWE-248, OR CWE-1069.] Ignoring exceptions and other error conditions may allow an attacker to induce unexpected behavior unnoticed.
    Assigned by: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
  • The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2017-7496

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