Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenStack Ceilometer vulnerability (USN-2311-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 77320

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer.

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens used in REST requests.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2311-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 77320

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2311-2.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2014

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-ceilometer, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-agent-central, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-agent-compute, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-agent-notification, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-alarm-evaluator, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-alarm-notifier, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ceilometer-collector

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4615

USN: 2311-2