Bug 1072151 (CVE-2014-0090)

Summary: CVE-2014-0090 Foreman: Session fixation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Garth Mollett <gmollett>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aortega, apevec, athomas, ayoung, bkearney, chrisw, cpelland, gkotton, iheim, jrusnack, kseifried, lhh, markmc, mmccune, rbryant, sclewis, security-response-team, yeylon
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Bug Depends On: 1072161    
Bug Blocks: 1076333    

Description Garth Mollett 2014-03-04 04:31:48 UTC 
Jeremy Choi and Keqin Hong of the Red Hat HSS Pen-Test Team reported that under some circumstances foreman did not generate new session-id's for every login. This flaw could allow authentication to be bypassed through session fixation attacks.
Comment 2 Garth Mollett 2014-03-04 05:44:49 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Jeremy Choi and Keqin Hong of the Red Hat HSS Pen-Test Team.
Comment 3 Garth Mollett 2014-03-24 22:21:29 UTC 
Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Low security impact in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3 and 4. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.