CVE-2014-7960
A flaw was found in the metadata constraints in OpenStack Object Storage (swift). By adding metadata in several separate calls, a malicious user could bypass the max_meta_count constraint, and store more metadata than allowed by the configuration.
Find out more about CVE-2014-7960 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-swift) | RHSA-2015:0836 | 2015-04-16 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-6 | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) | RHSA-2015:0835 | 2015-04-16 |
| Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (glusterfs) | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-6 (openstack-swift) | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-6 (nfs-ganesha) | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (glusterfs) | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Gluster 3 Samba on RHEL-6 (libtalloc) | RHSA-2015:1495 | 2015-07-29 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.0 | openstack-swift | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | openstack-swift | Will not fix |