Improper Authentication in Octavia - CVE-2019-17134

 

Improper Authentication in Octavia - CVE-2019-17134

Published: October 8, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30730
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17134
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Openstack
Affected software:
Octavia

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Amphora Images in OpenStack Octavia >=0.10.0 <2.1.2, >=3.0.0 <3.2.0, >=4.0.0 <4.1.0 allows anyone with access to the management network to bypass client-certificate based authentication and retrieve information or issue configuration commands via simple HTTP requests to the Agent on port https/9443, because the cmd/agent.py gunicorn cert_reqs option is True but is supposed to be ssl.CERT_REQUIRED.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-17134

Install update from vendor's website.

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