An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving (unhashed) tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allows attackers to bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request. NOTE: github.com/openstack/swauth URLs do not mean that Swauth is maintained by an official OpenStack project team.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift     through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving (unhashed) tokens retrieved from the     Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allows attackers to     bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request. NOTE:
    github.com/openstack/swauth URLs do not mean that Swauth is maintained by an official OpenStack project     team. (CVE-2017-16613)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

  - An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift
    through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving (unhashed) tokens retrieved from the
    Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allows attackers to
    bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request. NOTE:
    github.com/openstack/swauth URLs do not mean that Swauth is maintained by an official OpenStack project
    team. (CVE-2017-16613)

A vulnerability has been discovered in swauth, an authentication system for Swift, a distributed virtual object store used in Openstack.

The authentication token for an user is saved in clear text to the log file, which could enable an attacker with access to the logs to bypass the authentication provided by swauth.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
263250	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-16613	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical
433091	SCA: security update for swauth (GHSA-qhq8-xwqv-pvv9)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
433091	SCA: security update for swauth (GHSA-qhq8-xwqv-pvv9)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
104723	Debian DSA-4044-1 : swauth - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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CVE-2017-16613

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