CVE-2017-16613
Description
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101926
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882314
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1655781
- https://github.com/openstack/swauth/commit/70af7986265a3defea054c46efc82d0698917298
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4044
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16613
- https://github.com/openstack/swauth
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/swauth/PYSEC-2017-84.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227140059/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101926
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.