CVE-2012-4456

Advisory

The (1) OS-KSADM/services and (2) tenant APIs in OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-2 do not properly validate X-Auth-Token, which allow remote attackers to read the roles for an arbitrary user or get, create, or delete arbitrary services.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The (1) OS-KSADM/services and (2) tenant APIs in OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-2 do not properly validate X-Auth-Token, which allow remote attackers to read the roles for an arbitrary user or get, create, or delete arbitrary services.


MLIST:[openstack] 20120928 [OSSA 2012-015] Some actions in Keystone admin API do not validate token (CVE-2012-4456): https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17034.html
MLIST:[oss-security] 20120928 [OSSA 2012-015] Some actions in Keystone admin API do not validate token (CVE-2012-4456): http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/28/5
MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861179: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861179
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006815: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006815
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006822: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006822
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/14b136aed9d988f5a8f3e699bd4577c9b874d6c1: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/14b136aed9d988f5a8f3e699bd4577c9b874d6c1
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/1d146f5c32e58a73a677d308370f147a3271c2cb: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/1d146f5c32e58a73a677d308370f147a3271c2cb
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/24df3adb3f50cbb5ada411bc67aba8a781e6a431: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/24df3adb3f50cbb5ada411bc67aba8a781e6a431
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/868054992faa45d6f42d822bf1588cb88d7c9ccb: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/868054992faa45d6f42d822bf1588cb88d7c9ccb
BID:55716: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55716
SECUNIA:50665: http://secunia.com/advisories/50665
XF:keystone-xauth-sec-bypass(78944): https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78944

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4456
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006822
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/868054992faa45d6f42d822bf1588cb88d7c9ccb
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006815
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861179
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55716
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50665
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/14b136aed9d988f5a8f3e699bd4577c9b874d6c1
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/1d146f5c32e58a73a677d308370f147a3271c2cb
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/28/5
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17034.html
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/24df3adb3f50cbb5ada411bc67aba8a781e6a431
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78944