Red Hat openshift up to 2.0.5 improper authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat openshift up to 2.0.5. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-0188. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat openshift up to 2.0.5 (Virtualization Software). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The openshift-origin-broker in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.5, 1.2.7, and earlier does not properly handle authentication requests from the remote-user auth plugin, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users via the X-Remote-User header in a request to a passthrough trigger.

The weakness was presented 04/24/2014 as Bug 1090120 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-0188 since 12/03/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/28/2017).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Vulnerability Center (SBV-44467†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Virtualization Software

Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• openshift

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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