CVE-2012-5483

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-11-13
Bugzilla:
873447: CVE-2012-5483 OpenStack: Keystone /etc/keystone/ec2rc secret key exposure

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

tools/sample_data.sh in OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3, when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is configured, uses world-readable permissions for /etc/keystone/ec2rc, which allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from this file.

Find out more about CVE-2012-5483 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
RHOS Essex Release (openstack-keystone) RHSA-2012:1556 2012-12-10

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 2.0 openstack-keystone Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Kurt Seifried of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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