Bug 1339889 (CVE-2016-4451)

Summary:	CVE-2016-4451 foreman: privilege escalation through Organization and Locations API
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
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, apevec, bkearney, cbillett, ceph-eng-bugs, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, jjoyce, jmatthew, jschluet, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mburns, mmccune, ohadlevy, rbryant, satellite6-bugs, sclewis, sisharma, srevivo, tdecacqu, tlestach, tsanders
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that Satellite 6 did not properly enforce access controls on certain resources. An attacker, with access to the API and knowledge of the ID name, can potentially access other resources in other organizations.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-21 00:52:38 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1340107
Bug Blocks:	1339890, 1432305

Description Martin Prpič 2016-05-26 05:36:10 UTC

Marek Hulán of Red Hat reports:

When accessing Foreman as a user limited to specific organization, having access to other organization IDs and having unlimited filters could allow a user to access/modify other organization data by using the organization ID as an API parameter.

Upstream bug:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15182

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3553/commits/42066cfa19de316449954079c07bdf1e4cc5eb0a

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2016-07-25 15:21:51 UTC

Upstream Patches:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/1144040f444b4bf4aae81940a150b26b23b4623c
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/a30ab44ed6f140f1791afc51a1e448afc2ff28f9

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2017-07-15 01:57:26 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Marek Hulán (Red Hat)

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-21 12:27:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.3 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2018:0336 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336