[Openstack-security] [Bug 1201534] [NEW] heat.common.urlfetch does not validate server SSL certificates

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Mon Jul 15 18:08:38 UTC 2013


Public bug reported:

urllib2 is not considered "safe" for SSL communications. It does nothing
to validate the server SSL certificate.

We should migrate to requests, which has become common in OpenStack.

** Affects: heat
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: security

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Title:
  heat.common.urlfetch does not validate server SSL certificates

Status in Orchestration API (Heat):
  Triaged

Bug description:
  urllib2 is not considered "safe" for SSL communications. It does
  nothing to validate the server SSL certificate.

  We should migrate to requests, which has become common in OpenStack.

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