Synopsis

Moderate: openstack-mistral security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openstack-mistral is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenStack Workflow (mistral) groups multiple OpenStack tasks into workflows. Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses these workflows to perform common functions, including bare-metal node control, validations, plan management, and overcloud deployment.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openstack-mistral (3.0.2). (BZ#1452643)

Security Fix(es):

• An accessibility flaw was found in the OpenStack Workflow (mistral) service where a service log directory was improperly made world readable. A malicious system user could exploit this flaw to access sensitive information. (CVE-2017-2622)

Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 10 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1420992 - CVE-2017-2622 openstack-mistral: /var/log/mistral/ is world readable
• BZ - 1452643 - Rebase openstack-mistral to ece050

CVEs

• CVE-2017-2622

References