[Openstack-security] [Bug 1188189] Re: Some server-side 'SSL' communication fails to check certificates (use of HTTPSConnection)

OpenStack Infra 1188189 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Aug 12 04:15:09 UTC 2013


** Changed in: python-keystoneclient
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

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Title:
  Some server-side 'SSL' communication fails to check certificates (use
  of HTTPSConnection)

Status in Cinder:
  Confirmed
Status in OpenStack Identity (Keystone):
  Confirmed
Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service):
  Confirmed
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Confirmed
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Won't Fix
Status in OpenStack Security Notes:
  In Progress
Status in Python client library for Keystone:
  In Progress
Status in OpenStack Object Storage (Swift):
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Grant Murphy from Red Hat reported usage of httplib.HTTPSConnection
  objects. In Python 2.x those do not perform CA checks so client
  connections are vulnerable to MiM attacks.

  """
  The following files use httplib.HTTPSConnection :
  keystone/middleware/s3_token.py
  keystone/middleware/ec2_token.py
  keystone/common/bufferedhttp.py
  vendor/python-keystoneclient-master/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py

  AFAICT HTTPSConnection does not validate server certificates and
  should be avoided. This is fixed in Python 3, however in 2.X no
  validation occurs. I suspect this is also applicable to most OpenStack
  modules that make HTTPS client calls.

  Similar problems were found in ovirt:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851672 (CVE-2012-3533)

  With solutions for ovirt:
  http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7209/
  http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7249/
  """

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