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