PT-2012-5994 · Amazon+1 · Amazon Ec2+1

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-12-26 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-5483

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Keystone version 2012.1.3

Description The issue allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from the /etc/keystone/ec2rc file due to its world-readable permissions when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is configured.

Recommendations For OpenStack Keystone version 2012.1.3, consider changing the permissions of the /etc/keystone/ec2rc file to restrict read access to authorized users only, until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5483

RHSA-2012:1556

Affected Products

Amazon Ec2

Openstack Keystone

References · 6

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1556.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094286.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5483 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/56888 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80612 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873447 · Note