Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team found that an unauthenticated user able to connect to the Condor startd TCP port could request ads, provided they could guess or brute force the PID of the process, due to how the GIVE_REQUEST_AD handler is registered. The ads contains a lot of already-public information for users with READ privileges, however it also provides the ClaimId (as opposed to the PublicClaimId which truncates the full value of the ClaimID). If an attacker could obtain the private ClaimId, they could use it to control the running job, and also start new jobs on the system.
Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2 Via RHSA-2012:1278 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1278.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2012:1281 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1281.html
Created condor tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 858867]
This has been resolved in upstream 7.6.10 and 7.8.4: https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/condor-users/2012-September/msg00077.shtml
Upstream git commit: http://condor-git.cs.wisc.edu/?p=condor.git;a=commitdiff;h=d2f33972