Bug 1112945 (CVE-2014-4615) - CVE-2014-4615 pycadf: token leak to message queue
Summary: CVE-2014-4615 pycadf: token leak to message queue
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-4615
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1112947 Red Hat1112948 1112949 Red Hat1113373 Red Hat1113374 Red Hat1113375 Red Hat1113376 Red Hat1113377 Red Hat1113378 Red Hat1126310
Blocks: Embargoed1112950
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Reported: 2014-06-25 05:52 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:27 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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It was found that authentication tokens were not properly sanitized from the message queue by the notifier middleware. An attacker with read access to the message queue could possibly use this flaw to intercept an authentication token and gain elevated privileges. Note that all services using the notifier middleware configured after the auth_token middleware pipeline were affected.
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Last Closed: 2014-08-13 02:06:12 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1050 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: openstack-ceilometer security and bug fix update 2014-08-13 05:36:01 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-06-25 05:52:29 UTC 
The OpenStack project reports:

""
Title: User token leak to message queue in pyCADF notifier middleware
Reporter: Zhi Kun Liu (IBM)
Products: Neutron    (2014.1 versions up to 2014.1.1)
          Ceilometer (2013.2 versions up to 2013.2.3,
                      2014.1 versions up to 2014.1.1)
          pyCADF library (all versions up to 0.5.0)

Description:
Zhi Kun Liu from IBM reported a vulnerability in the notifier middleware
available in the PyCADF library and formerly copied into Neutron and
Ceilometer code. An attacker with read access to the message queue may
obtain authentication tokens used in REST requests (X_AUTH_TOKEN) that
goes through the notifier middleware. All services using the notifier
middleware configured after the auth_token middleware pipeline are impacted.
""
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-06-25 05:57:42 UTC 
Created openstack-ceilometer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1112949]
Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-06-25 05:57:48 UTC 
Created python-pycadf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-20 [bug 1112947]
Comment 4 Ihar Hrachyshka 2014-06-25 10:52:13 UTC 
How about RHOSP 5 tracker bugs?
Comment 8 Garth Mollett 2014-06-26 04:59:43 UTC 
(In reply to Ihar Hrachyshka from comment #4)
> How about RHOSP 5 tracker bugs?

Done.
Comment 11 Martin Prpič 2014-08-11 11:45:58 UTC 
IssueDescription:

It was found that authentication tokens were not properly sanitized from the message queue by the notifier middleware. An attacker with read access to the message queue could possibly use this flaw to intercept an authentication token and gain elevated privileges. Note that all services using the notifier middleware configured after the auth_token middleware pipeline were affected.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-13 01:36:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2014:1050 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1050.html
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