Bug 1169637 (CVE-2014-8124)

Summary: CVE-2014-8124 python-django-horizon: denial of service via login page requests
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
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, athomas, ayoung, chrisw, dallan, gkotton, gmollett, jrusnack, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mrunge, rbryant, sclewis, security-response-team, yeylon
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A denial of service flaw was found in the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) when using the db or memcached session engine. An attacker could make repeated requests to the login page, which would result in a large number of unwanted backend session entries, possibly leading to a denial of service.
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Last Closed: 2015-04-20 03:33:24 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1170421, 1174066, 1174067, 1174080, 1174081, 1174082, 1174083, 1174085    
Bug Blocks: 1169638    
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Description Flags
cve-2014-8124-django_openstack_auth.patch
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cve-2014-8124-master-kilo.patch
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cve-2014-8124-stable-icehouse.patch
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cve-2014-8124-stable-juno.patch none

Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-02 05:31:47 UTC 
The OpenStack project reports:

""
Title: Horizon denial of service attack through login page
Reporter: Eric Peterson (Time Warner Cable)
Products: Horizon
Versions: up to 2014.1.3, and 2014.2 versions up to 2014.2.1

Description:
Eric Peterson from Time Warner Cable reported a vulnerability in
Horizon. By making repeated requests to the Horizon login page a remote
attacker may generate unwanted session records, potentially resulting in
a denial of service. Only Horizon setups using a db or memcached session
engine are affected.
""
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2014-12-04 00:22:26 UTC 
Created attachment 964402 [details]
cve-2014-8124-django_openstack_auth.patch
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2014-12-04 00:22:44 UTC 
Created attachment 964403 [details]
cve-2014-8124-master-kilo.patch
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2014-12-04 00:23:03 UTC 
Created attachment 964404 [details]
cve-2014-8124-stable-icehouse.patch
Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2014-12-04 00:23:23 UTC 
Created attachment 964405 [details]
cve-2014-8124-stable-juno.patch
Comment 7 Kurt Seifried 2014-12-04 01:57:28 UTC 
Acknowledgement:

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack Project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Eric Peterson from Time Warner Cable as the original reporter.
Comment 13 Murray McAllister 2014-12-15 03:40:33 UTC 
Public now:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/09/23
Comment 14 Murray McAllister 2014-12-15 03:45:35 UTC 
Created python-django-horizon tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1174066]
Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1174067]
Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2015-01-05 07:40:53 UTC 
python-django-horizon-2014.1.3-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 14:32:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2015:0845 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 15:09:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:0839 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html