The openshift-origin-broker in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.5, 1.2.7, and earlier does not properly handle authentication requests from the remote-user auth plugin, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users via the X-Remote-User header in a request to a passthrough trigger.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-0188 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| RHOSE Client 1.2 (openshift-origin-broker) | RHSA-2014:0422 | 2014-04-23 |
| RHOSE Client 2.0 (openshift-origin-broker) | RHSA-2014:0423 | 2014-04-23 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 | enshift-origin-broker | Affected |
add this in the host httpd conf global config, e.g. at the
end of /etc/httpd/conf.d/000002_openshift_origin_broker_proxy.conf:
RequestHeader unset X-Remote-User
Vulmon