CVE-2013-1815: Red Hat Openstack Essex

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in PackStack. This vulnerability allows a local user to modify deployed systems by changing the answer file, which is created in insecure directories such as /tmp or the current working directory. This insecure file creation could lead to unauthorized system modifications.

Affected products

• Red Hat Openstack Essex: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Openstack Folsom: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Packstack: version 2012.2.3 only

Published 2013-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.