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RHEL 6 / 7 : openstack-swift (RHSA-2015:1684)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 234368
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openstack-swift.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1684 advisory.OpenStack Object Storage (swift) provides object storage in virtual containers, which allows users to store and retrieve files (arbitrary data). The service's distributed architecture supports horizontal scaling;
redundancy as failure-proofing is provided through software-based data replication. Because Object Storage supports asynchronous eventual consistency replication, it is well suited to multiple data-center deployment.
A flaw was found in OpenStack Object Storage that could allow an authenticated user to delete the most recent version of a versioned object regardless of ownership. To exploit this flaw, an attacker must know the name of the object and have listing access to the x-versions-location container. (CVE-2015-1856)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Clay Gerrard of SwiftStack as the original reporter.
All users of openstack-swift are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. After installing this update, the OpenStack Object Storage services 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL openstack-swift package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:1684.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209994
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 234368
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1684.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/15/2025
Updated: 4/15/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1856
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 6.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-object, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-account, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-container
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: 8/25/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-1856
RHSA: 2015:1684