A security flaw was found in the way Openstack Keystone (previously) performed management of LDAP password and admin_token Keystone daemon configuration file values. A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information. References: [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1168252 [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/19/2 Relevant upstream patch (Gerrit form): [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/26826/
Further CVE-2013-1977 vs CVE-2013-2006 ids disambiguation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devstack/+bug/1168252/comments/7
CVE-2013-1977 does not affect our installer, as it was hardened previously and has 0600 permissions, as noted on oss-sec: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/126 Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of openstack-keystone as shipped with Red Hat OpenStack Folsom.