OSSA-2013-005: EC2-style authentication accepts disabled user/tenants

Date:

February 19, 2013

CVE:

CVE-2013-0282

Affects

  • Keystone: All versions

Description

Nathanael Burton reported a vulnerability in EC2-style authentication in Keystone. Keystone fails to check whether a user, tenant, or domain is enabled before authenticating a user using the EC2 api. Authenticated, but disabled users (or authenticated users in disabled tenants or domains) could therefore retain access rights that were thought removed. Only setups enabling EC2-style authentication are affected. To disable EC2-style authentication to work around the issue, remove the EC2 extension (keystone.contrib.ec2:Ec2Extension.factory) from the keystone API pipeline in keystone.conf.

Patches

Credits

  • Nathanael Burton from National Security Agency (CVE-2013-0282)

References