Security Bulletin: SmartCloud Provisioning - Django vulnerabilities reported in April 2014 X-Force Report

Summary

SmartCloud Provisioning - Django vulnerabilities reported in April 2014 X-Force Report (CVE-2014-0473, CVE-2014-0474,CVE-2014-0472)

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0473**
DESCRIPTION**: Django is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by an error when handling caching of responses. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to disclose a CSRF nonce. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92706&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
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CVE-ID**: CVE-2014-0474**
DESCRIPTION**: Django could allow a remote attacker inject arbitrary data, caused by the failure to properly convert arguments when performing queries to tables by the FilePathField, GenericIPAddressField, and IPAddressField model field classes. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject data and manipulate SQL queries.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92707&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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CVE-ID**: CVE-2014-0472**
DESCRIPTION**: Django could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the improper validation of input by the django.core.urlresolvers.reverse() function prior to being used to import modules. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See _<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92705&gt;_ for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

SmartCloud Provisioning 2.3, 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.1 IFix1, 2.3.01 IFix2

Remediation/Fixes

SmartCloud Provisioning 2.3 is shipped with Open Source Django. Securities vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django which affect SmartCloud Provisioning. Django has released patch updates which contain vulnerabilities fixes and SmartCloud Provisioning Django has been updated to include those fixes.

The recommended solution is to download the SmartCloud Provisioning 2.3.0.1 interim Fix3, 2.3.0.1-CSI-ISCP-ISCP-IF0003 from Fix Central and apply it as soon as possible.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.