CVE-2017-7496 Privilege escalation in fedora-arm-installer
Local attackers can escalate privileges in Fedora ARM installer due to unchecked mount failures on unsafe temporary directories.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-7496?
CVE-2017-7496 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat, Inc. fedora-arm-installer, published on 26 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7496?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fedoraproject Arm Installer.
How do I fix CVE-2017-7496?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7496 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-7496 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7496 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c5w8-cwh4-jh73.