Bug 1339889 (CVE-2016-4451) - CVE-2016-4451 foreman: privilege escalation through Organization and Locations API
Summary: CVE-2016-4451 foreman: privilege escalation through Organization and Location...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-4451
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1340107
Blocks: 1339890 1432305
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Reported: 2016-05-26 05:36 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-10-21 00:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:52:38 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0336 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Satellite 6.3 security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2018-02-21 22:43:42 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2016-05-26 05:36:10 UTC 
Marek Hulán of Red Hat reports:

When accessing Foreman as a user limited to specific organization, having access to other organization IDs and having unlimited filters could allow a user to access/modify other organization data by using the organization ID as an API parameter.

Upstream bug:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15182

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3553/commits/42066cfa19de316449954079c07bdf1e4cc5eb0a
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2016-07-25 15:21:51 UTC 
Upstream Patches:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/1144040f444b4bf4aae81940a150b26b23b4623c
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/a30ab44ed6f140f1791afc51a1e448afc2ff28f9
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2017-07-15 01:57:26 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Marek Hulán (Red Hat)
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-21 12:27:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.3 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2018:0336 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
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