ubuntu-cve-2017-2621
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-07-27 18:29
Modified
2025-07-16 04:51
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cfn",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cloudwatch",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-common",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-engine",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-heat",
            "binary_version": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "heat",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/heat@2014.1.5-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2014.1.5-0ubuntu1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1",
        "2013.2-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2",
        "2014.1~b2-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu3",
        "2014.1-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1-0ubuntu1.1",
        "2014.1.1-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1.2-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1.3-0ubuntu1",
        "2014.1.4-0ubuntu2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cfn",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cloudwatch",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-common",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heat-engine",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-heat",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "heat",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/heat@1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:5.0.0-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0~b2-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0~b2-0ubuntu2",
        "1:6.0.0~b3-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.0.0-0ubuntu1.1",
        "1:6.1.0-0ubuntu1",
        "1:6.1.1-0ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2621",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:51:45Z",
  "published": "2018-07-27T18:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2621"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420990"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2621"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-2621"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:48Z"
}



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