Bug 883227 (CVE-2012-5622)

Summary: CVE-2012-5622 openshift-console: CSRF attack
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Kurt Seifried 2012-12-04 04:58:57 UTC
Jeremy Choi of Red Hat reports:

There is no CSRF attack protection mechanism on the web console. While users 
are authenticated malicious links or scripts provided by attackers can cause 
unwanted action which the user does not want to do.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-10 21:03:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift Enterprise

Via RHSA-2012:1555 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1555.html

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2012-12-19 00:56:07 UTC
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Red Hat.