Moderate: python-novajoin security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-novajoin security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for python-novajoin is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

This Python package provides a dynamic vendordata plugin for the OpenStack nova metadata service to manage host instantiation in an IPA server.

Security Fix:

• python-novajoin: novajoin API lacks access control (CVE-2019-10138)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• TLS-Everywhere - missing folder /var/lib/novajoin (BZ#1608273)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 13 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1608273 - TLS-Everywhere - missing folder /var/lib/novajoin
• BZ - 1670573 - CVE-2019-10138 python-novajoin: novajoin API lacks access control
• BZ - 1717237 - Rebase python-novajoin to 9bfcc96

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10138

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate