Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated packages are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 Web Administration Batch Update 3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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

Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration includes a fully automated setup based on Ansible and provides deep metrics and insights into active Gluster storage pools by using the Grafana platform. Red Hat Gluster Storage WebAdministration provides a dashboard view which allows an administrator to get a view of overall gluster health in terms of hosts, volumes, bricks, and other components of GlusterFS.

Security Fix(es):

• django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc' (CVE-2018-7536)
• django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'truncatechars_html' and 'truncatewords_html' (CVE-2018-7537)
• django: Open redirect possibility in CommonMiddleware (CVE-2018-14574)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Django project for reporting CVE-2018-7536 and CVE-2018-7537.

Users of Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration with Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to upgrade to this updated package to fix these issues.

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 Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration (for RHEL Server) 3.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1549777 - CVE-2018-7536 django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'urlize' and 'urlizetrunc'
• BZ - 1549779 - CVE-2018-7537 django: Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions via 'truncatechars_html' and 'truncatewords_html'
• BZ - 1609031 - CVE-2018-14574 django: Open redirect possibility in CommonMiddleware
• BZ - 1654338 - tendrl-commons doesn't specify minimal ansible version it requires
• BZ - 1655424 - Need to change graphite db initialization command in tendrl-ansible as per new graphite-web version-1.1.4-1
• BZ - 1655433 - Need to restrict few services port from outside access to web-admin
• BZ - 1658245 - graphite data migration process from graphite-web-0.X.X to graphite-web-1.X.X should done from tendrl-upgrade script
• BZ - 1659678 - Grafana unable to fetch data after updating graphite-web to 1.x.x
• BZ - 1660779 - After migration to graphite-1.1.4 the brick specific dashboards are not visible in grafana

CVEs

• CVE-2018-7536
• CVE-2018-7537
• CVE-2018-14574

References