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Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

CVE-2017-7496

High
7/10

Summary

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.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published