Bug 831565 (CVE-2012-2696)

Summary:	CVE-2012-2696 rhev: backend allows unprivileged queries
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	bsettle, cpelland, lpeer, security-response-team, srevivo
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Bug Depends On:	799704
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Description Petr Matousek 2012-06-13 10:27:55 UTC

A flaw has been found in the backend in the way queries were not checking privileges of the requestor. If the requestor was authenticated, he could issue queries even on data that should be accessible to admins only.

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2012-12-04 08:28:16 UTC

Statement:

This issue does affect Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2 and 3.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2 is now in Production 2 phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev/.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:16:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV Manager version 3.x

Via RHSA-2012:1506 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html