December 2013 - OpenStack-announce

[OSSA 2013-034] Heat CFN policy rules not all enforced (CVE-2013-6426)
by Jeremy Stanley 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-034 CVE: CVE-2013-6426 Date: December 11, 2013 Title: Heat CFN policy rules not all enforced Reporter: Steven Hardy (Red Hat) Products: Heat Affects: All supported releases Description: Steven Hardy from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Heat's default API policy enforcement. By calling the CreateStack or UpdateStack methods, an in-instance user may be able to create or update a stack in violation of the default policy. Only setups using Heat's cloudformation-compatible API are affected. Icehouse (development branch) fix: https://review.openstack.org/61452 Havana fix: https://review.openstack.org/61454 Notes: This fix will be included in the icehouse-2 development milestone and in a future 2013.2.1 release. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6426 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1256049 -- Jeremy Stanley OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team

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[OSSA 2013-033] Metadata queries from Neutron to Nova are not restricted by tenant (CVE-2013-6419)
by Jeremy Stanley 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-033 CVE: CVE-2013-6419 Date: December 11, 2013 Title: Metadata queries from Neutron to Nova are not restricted by tenant Reporter: Aaron Rosen (VMware) Products: Neutron, Nova Affects: All supported releases Description: Aaron Rosen from VMware reported a vulnerability in the metadata access from OpenStack Neutron to Nova. Because of a missing authorization check on port binding, by guessing an instance_id a tenant may retrieve another tenant's metadata resulting in information disclosure. Only OpenStack setups running neutron-metadata-agent are affected. Icehouse (development branch) fix: https://review.openstack.org/61439 (neutron) https://review.openstack.org/61428 (nova) Havana fix: https://review.openstack.org/61442 (neutron) https://review.openstack.org/61435 (nova) Grizzly fix: https://review.openstack.org/61443 (neutron) https://review.openstack.org/61437 (nova) Notes: This fix will be included in the icehouse-2 development milestone and in a future 2013.2.1 release. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6419 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1235450 -- Jeremy Stanley OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team

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[OSSA 2013-032] Keystone trust circumvention through EC2-style tokens (CVE-2013-6391)
by Jeremy Stanley 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-032 CVE: CVE-2013-6391 Date: December 11, 2013 Title: Keystone trust circumvention through EC2-style tokens Reporter: Steven Hardy (Red Hat) Products: Keystone Affects: Havana and later Description: Steven Hardy from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Keystone trusts when used in conjunction with the ec2tokens API. By generating EC2 credentials using a trust-scoped token, a trustee may retrieve a token not scoped to the trust, therefore elevating privileges to all of the trustor's roles. Only Keystone setups enabling EC2-style authentication are affected. Icehouse (development branch) fix: https://review.openstack.org/61419 Havana fix: https://review.openstack.org/61425 Notes: This fix will be included in the icehouse-2 development milestone and in a future 2013.2.1 release. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6391 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1242597 -- Jeremy Stanley OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 29 – Dec 6)
by Stefano Maffulli 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

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Icehouse-1 development milestone available
by Thierry Carrez 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hi everyone, The first milestone of the Icehouse development cycle, "icehouse-1" is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer, Heat, and Trove. It contains all the new features that have been added since the Havana Feature Freeze in September. You can see the full list of new features and fixed bugs, as well as tarball downloads, at: https://launchpad.net/keystone/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/glance/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/nova/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/horizon/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/neutron/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/cinder/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/ceilometer/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/heat/icehouse/icehouse-1 https://launchpad.net/trove/icehouse/icehouse-1 Including the oslo libraries, 69 blueprints were implemented and 738 bugs were fixed during this milestone. The next development milestone, icehouse-2, is scheduled for January 23rd. You can further track upcoming features and Icehouse release cycle status at: http://status.openstack.org/release/ Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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