CVE-2014-4615

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2014-05-20
CWE:
CWE-201
Bugzilla:
1112945: CVE-2014-4615 pycadf: token leak to message queue
It was found that authentication tokens were not properly sanitized from the message queue by the notifier middleware. An attacker with read access to the message queue could possibly use this flaw to intercept an authentication token and gain elevated privileges. Note that all services using the notifier middleware configured after the auth_token middleware pipeline were affected.

Find out more about CVE-2014-4615 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (openstack-ceilometer) RHSA-2014:1050 2014-08-13

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) python-pycadf Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) openstack-neutron Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) openstack-ceilometer Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-neutron Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 openstack-quantum Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 openstack-ceilometer Not affected

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