Bug 1040786 (CVE-2013-7048) - CVE-2013-7048 Openstack Nova: insecure directory permissions in snapshots
Summary: CVE-2013-7048 Openstack Nova: insecure directory permissions in snapshots
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-7048
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1040788 1040789 1063634 1063636 1063637
Blocks: 1023240 1040792
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Reported: 2013-12-12 06:25 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-07-15 07:10:11 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0231 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openstack-nova security and bug fix update 2014-03-05 00:00:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0366 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openstack-nova security and bug fix update 2014-04-04 00:18:29 UTC

Description Ratul Gupta 2013-12-12 06:25:49 UTC 
A vulnerability was discovered in OpenStack Nova, where the directories used to temporarily store live snapshots on Nova compute nodes were writeable to all local users. 

The issue has said to be surfaced due to a previous fix (https://review.openstack.org/gitweb?p=openstack%2Fnova.git;a=commitdiff;h=46de2d1e2d0abd6fdcd4da13facaf3225c721f5e), where the temporary directory was given 777 permissions, which could allow every user on the whole system to write there. A local attacker with shell access on compute nodes could therefore read and modify the contents of live snapshots before those are uploaded to the image service.

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/474
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1227027
Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-12-12 06:27:12 UTC 
Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1040788]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1040789]
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2014-01-13 19:36:27 UTC 
Fix information:

Icehouse (development branch) fix:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/58852/

Havana fix:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60548/

Grizzly fix:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60550/
Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2014-02-14 08:09:42 UTC 
Salvatore Bonaccorso noted in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732022 "From https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/2013.2.2 and looking at nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py this looks it is fixed only in 2013.2.2."

Is that a concern for anything Red Hat ships?
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-02-25 07:52:55 UTC 
openstack-nova-2013.2.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-04 19:04:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2014:0231 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-04-02 09:14:19 UTC 
openstack-nova-2013.1.5-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-03 20:20:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2014:0366 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0366.html
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