RHEL 7 : python-keystoneclient (RHSA-2014:1784)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194002

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-keystoneclient.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1784 advisory.

Python-keystoneclient is a client library and a command line utility for interacting with the OpenStack Identity API.

It was found that Python-keystoneclient treated all settings in paste.ini files as string types. If the insecure option were set to any value in a paste.ini configuration file, it would be evaluated as true, resulting in TLS connections being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
(CVE-2014-7144)

Note that when the insecure option was not set in paste.ini, it evaluated to false, and verification was performed.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Previously, when running Python-keystoneclient in the DEBUG log level, sensitive data may have been logged in plain text. Refer to the OSSN-0024 document, linked to in the References, for further information.
(BZ#1106328)

* Previously, when attempting to enable the use of the s3_token middleware, for use with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) APIs, a No module named webob error was returned. (BZ#1133431)

All python-keystoneclient users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL python-keystoneclient package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:1784.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0024

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106328

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133431

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143808

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1758172

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1784

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194002

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1784.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-keystoneclient-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-keystoneclient, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7144

CWE: 295

RHSA: 2014:1784