USN-2705-1: Keystone vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• python-keystoneclient - Client library for OpenStack Identity API
• python-keystonemiddleware - Client library for OpenStack Identity API

Details

Qin Zhao discovered Keystone disabled certification verification when
the "insecure" option is set in a paste configuration (paste.ini)
file regardless of the value, which allows remote attackers to conduct
machine-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate. (CVE-2014-7144)

Brant Knudson discovered Keystone disabled certification verification when
the "insecure" option is set in a paste configuration (paste.ini)
file regardless of the value, which allows remote attackers to conduct
machine-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate. (CVE-2015-1852)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04

• python-keystoneclient - 1:1.2.0-0ubuntu1.1
• python-keystonemiddleware - 1.5.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• python-keystoneclient - 1:0.7.1-ubuntu1.2

After a standard system update you need to restart Keystone to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-7144
• CVE-2015-1852