7.5 - RHSA-2013:1522

Problem Description:

Updated Foreman packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

OpenStack 3 - noarch

3. Description:

The Foreman packages provide facilities for rapidly deploying Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. These packages are provided as a Technology Preview. For more information on the scope and nature of support for items marked as Technology Preview, refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/

It was found that Foreman did not correctly sanitize values of the "fqdn" and "hostgroup" parameters, allowing an attacker to provide a specially crafted value for these parameters and perform an SQL injection attack. (CVE-2013-4386)

This issue was discovered by Dominic Cleal of Red Hat.

Users of Foreman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. In Red Hat OpenStack, Foreman runs on the Apache HTTP Server using mod_passenger. As such, after installing the updated packages, the httpd service must be restarted ("service httpd restart") for this update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1013076 - CVE-2013-4386 Foreman: host and host group parameter SQL injection