RHEL 6 : openstack-heat-templates (RHSA-2014:0579)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210199

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openstack-heat-templates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0579 advisory.

OpenStack Orchestration (heat) is a template-driven engine used to specify and deploy configurations for Compute, Storage, and OpenStack Networking.
It can also be used to automate post-deployment actions, which in turn allows automated provisioning of infrastructure, services, and applications. Orchestration can also be integrated with Telemetry alarms to implement auto-scaling for certain infrastructure resources.

The openstack-heat-templates package provides heat example templates and image building elements for the openstack-heat package.

It was discovered that certain heat templates used HTTP to insecurely download packages and signing keys via Yum. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to prevent essential security updates from being installed on the system. (CVE-2014-0040)

It was found that certain heat templates disabled SSL protection for various Yum repositories (sslverify=false). An attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to prevent essential security updates from being installed on the system. (CVE-2014-0041)

It was discovered that certain heat templates disabled GPG signature checking of packages via Yum (gpgcheck=0). An attacker could use this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to install arbitrary packages on the system. (CVE-2014-0042)

These issues were discovered by Grant Murphy of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

All openstack-heat-templates users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which corrects 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL openstack-heat-templates package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:0579.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210199

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0579.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: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0042

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0040

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-heat-templates

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0040, CVE-2014-0041, CVE-2014-0042

CWE: 295, 494, 522

RHSA: 2014:0579

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