CVE-2015-0271

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-03-05
CWE:
CWE-73->CWE-552
Bugzilla:
1193638: CVE-2015-0271 OpenStack dashboard: log file arbitrary file retrieval
It was found that the local log-viewing function of the redhat-access-plugin for OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) did not sanitize user input. An authenticated user could use this flaw to read an arbitrary file with the permissions of the web server.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0271 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
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 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (redhat-access-plugin-openstack) RHSA-2015:0840 2015-04-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (redhat-access-plugin-openstack) RHSA-2015:0645 2015-03-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (redhat-access-plugin-openstack) RHSA-2015:0841 2015-04-16

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 redhat-access-plugin-openstack Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Sara Perez Merino of SensePost for reporting this issue.

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