RHEL 6 : python-glanceclient (RHSA-2013:1200)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210196

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1200 advisory.

The python-glanceclient package provides a client for the OpenStack Glance API.

It was discovered that the Python Glance client did not properly check SSL certificates. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. (CVE-2013-4111)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Thomas Leaman of HP as the original reporter.

All users of python-glanceclient are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which corrects this issue.

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-glanceclient package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:1200.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210196

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1200.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, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4111

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-glanceclient

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: 9/3/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4111

CWE: 295

RHSA: 2013:1200

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