Bug 1150879 (CVE-2014-3691) - CVE-2014-3691 foreman-proxy: failure to verify SSL certificates
Summary: CVE-2014-3691 foreman-proxy: failure to verify SSL certificates
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3691
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1152720 1152722 1152723
Blocks: 1150912
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-09 06:30 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:08 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was discovered that foreman-proxy, when running in SSL-secured mode, did not correctly verify SSL client certificates. This could permit any client with access to the API to make requests and perform actions otherwise restricted.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-05-20 05:20:56 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0287 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: foreman-proxy security update 2015-03-04 02:09:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0288 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: foreman-proxy security update 2015-03-04 01:58:44 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-09 06:30:27 UTC 
It was discovered that Foreman Smart Proxy failed to verify SSL certificates. As noted in the upstream bug, "This permits any client with access to the API to make requests and perform actions (permitting control of Puppet CA, DHCP, DNS etc.)".

A mitigation is available from the following:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/foreman-announce/jXC5ixybjqo

References:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/7822
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-03 20:59:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2015:0288 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0288.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-03 21:09:34 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack Foreman for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2015:0287 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0287.html
Comment 7 Kurt Seifried 2015-05-20 05:20:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Satellite 6

Via RHBA-2015:0054 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015:0054
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