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01 Record

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. A malicious system user

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base score5.9 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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02 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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 35.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-07-27 18:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 14:02Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-12-01
Assigning CNA
redhat
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 5.9)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
  • CWE-552Files or Directories Accessible to External PartiesBase
  • CWE-532Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log FileBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
6634f395753fcaa38c4c06f88cb7ce51c815aaf519ffcad873d9e832ac17c37a

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Red Hatopenstack-heatopenstack-heat-8.0.0, openstack-heat-6.1.0, openstack-heat-7.0.2—

06 References