OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openstack | Redhat | 4.0 (including) | 4.0 (including) |
| OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6 | RedHat | openstack-heat-templates-0:0-0.3.20140407git.el6ost | * |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520
- https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520
- https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3