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: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: abaron, aortega, apevec, apevec, ayoung, chrisw, dallan, derekh, gkotton, gmollett, jruzicka, lhh, markmc, p, rbryant, rhos-maint, sclewis, yeylon, zaitcev
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OS: Linux   
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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.