High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jun 26, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-7496

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject/Arm Installer
cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:arm_installer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=1.99.16
Red Hat, Inc./fedora-arm-installerv5
Range: up to and including 1.99.16

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

pagure.io/arm-image-installer/pull-request/10nvdVendor Advisory

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