Under certain configurations, Keystone would allow unintended access over the network.
Guang Yee discovered that Keystone would not always perform all verification checks when configured to use PKI. If the keystone server was configured to use PKI and services or users requested online verification, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass revocation checks. Keystone uses UUID tokens by default in Ubuntu.
20 March 2013
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Under certain configurations, Keystone would allow unintended access over the network.
Guang Yee discovered that Keystone would not always perform all verification checks when configured to use PKI. If the keystone server was configured to use PKI and services or users requested online verification, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass revocation checks. Keystone uses UUID tokens by default in Ubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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