1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2406-1

USN-2406-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability

Publication date

11 November 2014

Overview

OpenStack Keystone could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Releases

Packages

Details

Brant Knudson discovered that OpenStack Keystone did not properly perform
input sanitization when performing endpoint catalog substitution. A remote
attacker with privileged access for creating endpoints could exploit this
to obtain sensitive information.

Brant Knudson discovered that OpenStack Keystone did not properly perform
input sanitization when performing endpoint catalog substitution. A remote
attacker with privileged access for creating endpoints could exploit this
to obtain sensitive information.

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-keystone –  1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu2.1

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