RHEL 6 : openstack-keystone (RHSA-2012:1557)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210170

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1557 advisory.

The openstack-keystone packages provide Keystone, a Python implementation of the OpenStack identity service API, which provides Identity, Token, Catalog, and Policy services.

The openstack-keystone packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2012.2.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#883829)

This update also fixes the following security issues:

A flaw in Keystone allowed an attacker with access to the web and network interfaces to continue using chained tokens linked to tokens that had expired. This would allow the attacker to continue using the tokens despite the parent token being expired, giving them continued access to OpenStack services. (CVE-2012-5563)

It was found that Keystone did not correctly handle users being removed from tenants when Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) style credentials (credentials that are issued in the same format as standard Amazon EC2 credentials) were in use. When a user was removed from a tenant, they retained the privileges provided by that tenant, allowing them to access resources they should no longer have access to. (CVE-2012-5571)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Anndy as the original reporter of CVE-2012-5563, and Vijaya Erukala as the original reporter of CVE-2012-5571.

All users of openstack-keystone are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. After installing the updated packages, the Keystone service (openstack-keystone) will be restarted automatically.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected openstack-keystone, openstack-keystone-doc and / or python-keystone packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210170

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1557.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5571

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-keystone, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-keystone-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-keystone

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: 12/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5563, CVE-2012-5571

RHSA: 2012:1557

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