Bug 1031652 (CVE-2013-6396)

Summary:	CVE-2013-6396 python-swiftclient: SSL certificate verification security issue
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, aortega, apevec, apevec, ayoung, chrisw, dallan, derekh, gkotton, gmollett, jruzicka, lhh, markmc, p, rbryant, rhos-maint, sclewis, yeylon, zaitcev
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2014-03-10 03:39:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1031653, 1031654, 1034972, 1034973, 1034981
Bug Blocks:	1031657

Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-18 13:17:48 UTC

Python-swiftclient is found to be affected by a security issue, where it fails to properly verify the server SSL certificates, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks via MitM (Man in the Middle attacks) and possibly leading to disclosure of sensitive information.

References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491368
https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-swiftclient/+bug/1199783

Commit:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/33473/

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-11-18 13:19:28 UTC

Created python-swiftclient tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1031653]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1031654]

Comment 7 Garth Mollett 2014-03-10 03:39:53 UTC

Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3 however fixing this issue would require a change to default behavior. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-03-21 09:34:16 UTC

python-swiftclient-2.0.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.