CVE-2016-4474

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-4474  

An issue was discovered in the image build process for the overcloud images, as used by director, resulting in all previous images to have a default root password of "rootpw". Remote root access via SSH is disabled by default.

An issue was discovered in the image build process for the overcloud images, as used by director, resulting in all previous images to have a default root password of "rootpw". Remote root access via SSH is disabled by default.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.4
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 (rhosp-director-images) RHSA-2016:1222 2016-06-13
OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 RHSA-2016:1223 2016-06-13

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 overcloud-full Affected
OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 overcloud-full Affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank David Patterson (Dell) for reporting this issue.