Bug 1125795 (CVE-2014-3573)
Summary: | CVE-2014-3573 oVirt Engine: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw in backend module | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Arun Babu Neelicattu <aneelica> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | acathrow, alonbl, aneelica, bazulay, bmcclain, chazlett, dblechte, djorm, ecohen, gklein, grocha, idith, iheim, jrusnack, laravot, lpeer, lsurette, michal.skrivanek, nobody, ofrenkel, oourfali, pstehlik, rgolan, security-response-team, yeylon |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
It was discovered that, when loading XML/RSDL documents, the oVirt Engine back end module used an insecure DocumentBuilderFactory. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the ovirt-engine server, and potentially perform other more advanced XML External Entity (XXE) attacks.
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2014-09-04 15:31:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1125802, 1125803 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1125797 |
Description
Arun Babu Neelicattu
2014-08-01 04:55:55 UTC
Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Arun Babu Neelicattu of Red Hat Product Security. This issue has been addressed in following products: RHEV Manager version 3.4 Via RHSA-2014:1161 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1161.html |