CVE-2014-0167
It was found that RBAC policies were not enforced in certain methods of the OpenStack Compute EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) API. A remote attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges beyond the user group they were originally restricted to. Note that only certain setups using non-default RBAC rules for OpenStack Compute were affected.
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CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2014:1084 | 2014-08-21 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | openstack-nova | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 | openstack-nova | Will not fix |