USN-1137-1: Eucalyptus vulnerability

Publication date

26 May 2011

Overview

An attacker could send crafted input to Eucalyptus to run commands as a valid user.


Packages

  • eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture
  • rampart - Apache web services security engine

Details

Juraj Somorovsky, Jorg Schwenk, Meiko Jensen and Xiaofeng Lou discovered
that Eucalyptus did not properly validate SOAP requests. An unauthenticated
remote attacker could exploit this to submit arbitrary commands to the
Eucalyptus SOAP interface in the context of an authenticated user.

Juraj Somorovsky, Jorg Schwenk, Meiko Jensen and Xiaofeng Lou discovered
that Eucalyptus did not properly validate SOAP requests. An unauthenticated
remote attacker could exploit this to submit arbitrary commands to the
Eucalyptus SOAP interface in the context of an authenticated user.

Update instructions

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

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