Eval injection vulnerability in luci 0.26.0 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to execute arbitrary Python code via a crafted cluster configuration.

Updated luci packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Luci is a web-based high availability administration application.

It was discovered that luci used eval() on inputs containing strings from the cluster configuration file when generating its web pages. An attacker with privileges to create or edit the cluster configuration could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the luci user on a host running luci. (CVE-2014-3593)

This issue was discovered by Jan Pokorny of Red Hat.

These updated luci packages also include several bug fixes and multiple enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical Notes, linked to in the References section, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All luci users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

It was discovered that luci used eval() on inputs containing strings from the cluster configuration file when generating its web pages. An attacker with privileges to create or edit the cluster configuration could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the luci user on a host running luci. (CVE-2014-3593)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1390 advisory.

    Luci is a web-based high availability administration application.

    It was discovered that luci used eval() on inputs containing strings from     the cluster configuration file when generating its web pages. An attacker     with privileges to create or edit the cluster configuration could use this     flaw to execute arbitrary code as the luci user on a host running luci.
    (CVE-2014-3593)

    This issue was discovered by Jan Pokorn of Red Hat.

    These updated luci packages also include several bug fixes and multiple     enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this     advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical     Notes, linked to in the References section, for information on the most     significant of these changes.

    All luci users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these     enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79179	CentOS 6 : luci (CESA-2014:1390)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
78847	Scientific Linux Security Update : luci on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20141014)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
78407	RHEL 6 : luci (RHSA-2014:1390)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2014-3593

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