CVE-2020-1741
Description
A flaw was found in openshift-ansible. OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3.11 is too permissive in the way it specified CORS allowed origins during installation. An attacker, able to man-in-the-middle the connection between the user's browser and the openshift console, could use this flaw to perform a phishing attack. The main threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.
Mitigation
Ensure that the corsAllowedOrigin definition within master-config.yaml contains elements in the form
corsAllowedOrigins:
- ^(?i)https://my\.subdomain\.domain\.com(:|\z)
and not the form
corsAllowedOrigins:
- (?i)//my\.subdomain\.domain\.com(:|\z)
as the first will permit cross origin requests only if the host and protocol matches, whereas the second will permit a downgrade to http protocol for example.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 5.9 | 5.9 | N/A |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | N/A |
| Attack Complexity | High | High | N/A |
| Privileges Required | None | None | N/A |
| User Interaction | Required | Required | N/A |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged | N/A |
| Confidentiality | High | High | N/A |
| Integrity Impact | Low | Low | N/A |
| Availability Impact | None | None | N/A |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Unexpected State; Varies by Context
When the regular expression is not correctly specified, data might have a different format or type than the rest of the program expects, producing resultant weaknesses or errors.
Access Control
Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism
In PHP, regular expression checks can sometimes be bypassed with a null byte, leading to any number of weaknesses.
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