Ubuntu 13.10 : glance vulnerability (USN-2193-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73883

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Paul McMillan discovered that the Sheepdog backend in OpenStack Glance did not properly handle untrusted input. A remote authenticated attacker exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the glance user.

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Solution

Update the affected python-glance package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73883

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2193-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-glance

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0162

BID: 66774

USN: 2193-1

Detections

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