RHSA-2024:9989 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-webob is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 17.1 (Wallaby).

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

WebOb provides wrappers around the WSGI request environment, and an object
to help create WSGI responses. The objects map much of the specified
behavior of HTTP, including header parsing and accessors for other standard
parts of the environment.

Security Fix(es):

• WebOb's location header normalization during redirect leads to open

redirect (CVE-2024-42353)

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

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 17.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

• CVE-2024-42353

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate