The V3 API in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of the same authentication method in a request, aka "authentication chaining."

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The V3 API in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 allows
    remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of the same
    authentication method in a request, aka "authentication chaining." (CVE-2014-2828)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - The V3 API in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) 2013.1     before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU     consumption) via a large number of the same     authentication method in a request, aka 'authentication     chaining.' (CVE-2014-2828)

- Sanitizes authentication methods received in requests     CVE-2014-2828

    - Privilege escalation through trust chained delegation       CVE-2014-3476

    - Keystone V2 trusts privilege escalation through user       supplied project id CVE-2014-3520

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
432750	SCA: security update for keystone (GHSA-6mv3-p2gr-wgqf)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
432750	SCA: security update for keystone (GHSA-6mv3-p2gr-wgqf)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
80657	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : keystone (cve_2014_2828_authentication_issues)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	Local	high
77061	Fedora 20 : openstack-keystone-2013.2.3-5.fc20 (2014-5497)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-2828

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high