Security Bulletin: OpenStack vulnerabilities affect IBM SmartCloud Entry(CVE-2015-7548, CVE-2015-8749 CVE-2015-1850)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM SmartClound Entry is vulnerable to several Openstack Nova vulerabilities, which could allow a local authenticated attacker or a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8749
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Nova could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a Xen connection password leak when attempting to connect a volume using the Xen API. An attacker with access to logs could exploit this vulnerability using StorageError to obtain the password and other sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109585 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7548
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Nova could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in instance snapshot. By overwriting the disk inside an instance using a malformed image and requesting a snapshot, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the host.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109474 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1850
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Nova could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to provide input format to several calls of "qemu-img convert". By overwriting an image convert using a qcow2 backing file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the host.
CVSS Base Score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103849 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.2 through Appliance fix pack 20
IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.1 through Appliance fix pack 20

Remediation/Fixes

Product	VRMF	APAR	Remediation/First Fix
IBM SmartCloud Entry	3.1	None	IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.1 Appliance fix pack 21: https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+SmartCloud+Entry&fixids=3.1.0.4-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP21&source=SAR&function=fixId&parent=ibm/Other%20software
IBM SmartCloud Entry	3.2	None	IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.2 Appliance fix pack 21: https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+SmartCloud+Entry&fixids=3.2.0.4-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP21&source=SAR&function=fixId&parent=ibm/Other%20software

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Acknowledgement

None

Change History

04 August, 2016: Original version submitted for review

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Security Bulletin: OpenStack vulnerabilities affect IBM SmartCloud Entry(CVE-2015-7548, CVE-2015-8749 CVE-2015-1850)