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Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale Object Protocols functionality is affected by security vulnerabilities in OpenStack (CVE-2015-1852 and CVE-2015-7546)

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Summary

IBM Spectrum Scale Object Protocols functionality is affected by security vulnerabilities in OpenStack that could allow:

- a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by an error in the api-paste.ini configuration file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted handshake to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt and modify traffic (CVE-2015-1852)

- a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when using the PKI or PKIZ token providers. By manipulating the token contents of a revoked token, the revocation check will improperly consider the token as valid. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a revoked token to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources (CVE-2015-7546)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-1852
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack keystonemiddleware and python-keystoneclient is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by an error in the api-paste.ini configuration file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted handshake to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt and modify traffic.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102669 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7546
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Keystone and keystonemiddleware could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when using the PKI or PKIZ token providers. By manipulating the token contents of a revoked token, the revocation check will improperly consider the token as valid. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a revoked token to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110301 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.1.0 thru V4.2.2.0

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.0.0 thru V4.2.0.4

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1.1 thru V4.1.1.14

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

12 June 2017: Original Version Published

*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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Document Information

Modified date:
01 August 2018

UID

ssg1S1010157