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  2. USN-4420-1

USN-4420-1: Cinder and os-brick vulnerability

Publication date

7 July 2020

Overview

Cinder and os-brick could be made to expose sensitive information.

Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service
  • python-os-brick - Library for managing local volume attaches - Python 2.x

Details

David Hill and Eric Harney discovered that Cinder and os-brick incorrectly
handled ScaleIO backend credentials. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
expose sensitive information.

David Hill and Eric Harney discovered that Cinder and os-brick incorrectly
handled ScaleIO backend credentials. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
expose 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
20.04 focal python3-cinder –  2:16.1.0-0ubuntu1
python3-os-brick –  3.0.1-0ubuntu1.2
18.04 bionic python-cinder –  2:12.0.9-0ubuntu1.2
python-os-brick –  2.3.0-0ubuntu1.2
python3-os-brick –  2.3.0-0ubuntu1.2

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