RHEL 6 : openstack-glance (RHSA-2013:0209)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234395

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openstack-glance.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0209 advisory.

These packages provide a service (code name Glance) that acts as a registry for virtual machine images.

It was found that when the OpenStack Glance front-end communicated with an OpenStack Swift endpoint, the operator credentials could be logged in plain text when certain errors occurred during new image creation. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain administrative access to an OpenStack Swift endpoint. (CVE-2013-0212)

This issue was discovered by Dan Prince of Red Hat.

All users of openstack-glance are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. After installing the updated packages, the Glance services (openstack-glance-api and openstack-glance-registry) 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-glance package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0209.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234395

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0209.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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0212

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 1/30/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0212

CWE: 209

RHSA: 2013:0209

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