CVE-2015-1856

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-04-15
Bugzilla:
1209994: CVE-2015-1856 OpenStack Swift: unauthorized deletion of versioned Swift object
A flaw was found in OpenStack Object Storage that could allow an authenticated user to delete the most recent version of a versioned object regardless of ownership. To exploit this flaw, an attacker must know the name of the object and have listing access to the x-versions-location container.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1856 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
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 Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (glusterfs) RHSA-2015:1846 2015-10-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2015:1684 2015-08-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2015:1684 2015-08-25
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-6 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2015:1845 2015-10-05
Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-6 RHSA-2015:1845 2015-10-05
Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (glusterfs) RHSA-2015:1845 2015-10-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2015:1681 2015-08-24
Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-7 (nfs-ganesha) RHSA-2015:1846 2015-10-05
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7 (openstack-swift) RHSA-2015:1846 2015-10-05
Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-6 (nfs-ganesha) RHSA-2015:1845 2015-10-05
Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-7 RHSA-2015:1846 2015-10-05

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-swift Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Clay Gerrard of SwiftStack as the original reporter.

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