Insufficiently protected credentials in OpenStack Keystone - CVE-2019-19687

 

Insufficiently protected credentials in OpenStack Keystone - CVE-2019-19687

Published: December 20, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU23776
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19687
CWE-ID: CWE-522
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to list any credentials.

The vulnerability exists due to data leakage in the list credentials API. A remote user with a role on a project can list any credentials with the "/v3/credentials" API when "enforce_scope" is false.


Affected software

OpenStack Keystone
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power
Red Hat OpenStack
keystone (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-19687

Install updates from vendor's website.

OpenStack Keystone - update to 16.0.0-5
keystone (Ubuntu package) - update to 2:16.0.0-0ubuntu1.1

External References

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