Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-03-12 CWE: CWE-200 Bugzilla: 1667070: CVE-2019-3816 openwsman: Arbitrary file disclosure due to root working directory Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to arbitrary file disclosure because the working directory of openwsmand daemon was set to root directory. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to openwsman server.
Find out more about CVE-2019-3816 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform currently only utilizes the client and python client API bindings, not the server components of openwsman. Additionally, updates for this package are received through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization uses only the openwsman-python client API bindings, not the server components of openwsman.
This issue affects the versions of openwsman as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Important, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | redhat-virtualization-host | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | openwsman | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | openwsman | Will not fix |
| OpenStack 9.0 Director for RHEL 7 | openwsman | Will not fix |
| OpenStack 8.0 Director for RHEL 7 | openwsman | Will not fix |
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