Bug 1948005 (CVE-2021-3494)

Summary:	CVE-2021-3494 foreman: possible man-in-the-middle in smart_proxy realm_freeipa
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Yadnyawalk Tale <ytale>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bbuckingham, bcourt, bkearney, btotty, hhudgeon, lzap, mmccune, nmoumoul, pcreech, rchan, rjerrido, sokeeffe
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	foreman 2.5.0	Doc Type:	---
Doc Text:	A smart proxy that provides a restful API to various sub-systems of the Foreman is affected by the flaw which can cause a Man-in-the-Middle attack. The FreeIPA module of Foreman smart proxy does not check the SSL certificate, thus, an unauthenticated attacker can perform actions in FreeIPA if certain conditions are met. The highest threat from this flaw is to system confidentiality.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-11-13 15:51:16 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1948006
Bug Blocks:	1941405, 1948686

Description Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-04-09 18:05:59 UTC

The realm_freeipa module of Foreman smart proxy suffers from a flaw that can be exploited as a man-in-the-middle attack. The module does not check the SSL certificate and if certain conditions are met, can perform actions in FreeIPA as the Foreman user.

Comment 1 Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-04-09 18:06:04 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Evgeni Golov (Red Hat)
Upstream: Foreman project

Comment 2 Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-04-09 18:08:16 UTC

Mitigation:

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Comment 5 Yadnyawalk Tale 2021-04-16 15:06:07 UTC

Upstream issues are created at:
 https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/32288
 https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/32289

Upstream patch:
 https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy/pull/787

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-16 14:08:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2021:4702 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4702