RHEL 6 / 7 : python-keystoneclient (RHSA-2015:1685)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234378

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1685 advisory.

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

It was discovered that some items in the S3Token configuration as used by python-keystoneclient were incorrectly evaluated as strings, an issue similar to CVE-2014-7144. If the insecure option was set to false, the option would be evaluated as true, resulting in TLS connections being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Note: The insecure option defaults to false, so setups that do not specifically define insecure=false are not affected. (CVE-2015-1852)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Brant Knudson from IBM as the original reporter.

All python-keystoneclient users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct 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-keystoneclient package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:1685.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234378

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1685.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 4/15/2025

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: 3.6

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-2015-1852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, 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: 8/25/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1852

CWE: 295

RHSA: 2015:1685

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