Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2311-1

USN-2311-1: pyCADF vulnerability

Publication date

11 August 2014

Overview

pyCADF could be made to expose sensitive information.

Releases

14.04 LTS

Packages

python-pycadf - implementation of DMTF Cloud Audit (CADF) data model

Details

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens
used in REST requests.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	python-pycadf – 0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1

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References

CVE-2014-4615

CVE-2014-4615