CVE-2017-2627

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-2627  

A flaw was found in openstack-tripleo-common as shipped with Red Hat Openstack Enterprise 10 and 11. The sudoers file as installed with OSP's openstack-tripleo-common package is much too permissive. It contains several lines for the mistral user that have wildcards that allow directory traversal with '..' and it grants full passwordless root access to the validations user.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A flaw was found in openstack-tripleo-common as shipped with Red Hat Openstack Enterprise 10 and 11. The sudoers file as installed with OSP's openstack-tripleo-common package is much too permissive. It contains several lines for the mistral user that have wildcards that allow directory traversal with '..' and it grants full passwordless root access to the validations user.

Find out more about CVE-2017-2627 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 8.2
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) openstack-tripleo-common Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 openstack-tripleo-common Will not fix
OpenStack 9.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-common Not affected
OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-common Not affected
OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 openstack-tripleo-common Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Garth Mollett (Red Hat).