DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1426

Puppet Labs Facter 1.6.0 through 2.4.0 allows local users to obtains sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata by reading a fact for an Amazon EC2 node...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0167

The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for 1 addrules, 2 removerules, 3 destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows...

Keystone: trust circumvention through EC2-style tokens

The ec2tokens API in OpenStack Identity Keystone before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 does not return a trust-scoped token when one is received, which allows remote trust users to gain privileges by generating EC2 credentials from a trust-scoped token and using them in an ec2toke...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-keystone security and bug fix update

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scor...

KALI Linux 1.0.6 released; officially added Emergency Self Destruct feature

A few days back the developers of one of the most advance open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' announced that they were planning to include "emergency self-destruction of LUKS".They patched a utility called cryptsetup, which introduces a self destruction featur...

USN-1831-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerability

Loganathan Parthipan discovered that Nova did not verify the size of QCOW2 instance storage. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service by creating an image with a large virtual size with little data, then filling the virtual disk...

Keystone: EC2-style authentication accepts disabled user/tenants

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom 2012.1.3 and earlier, and Essex does not properly check if the 1 user, 2 tenant, or 3 domain is enabled when using EC2-style authentication, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass access restrictions...

[USN-1734-1] OpenStack Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1734-1 February 21, 2013 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

[USN-1709-1] OpenStack Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1709-1 January 29, 2013 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

USN-1709-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerability

Phil Day discovered that nova-volume did not validate access to volumes. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to bypass intended access controls and boot from arbitrary volumes...

Design/Logic Flaw

tools/sampledata.sh in OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3, when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 is configured, uses world-readable permissions for /etc/keystone/ec2rc, which allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from this...

CVE-2012-5571

A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions. This occurs because OpenStack Keystone does not properly handle EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud tokens when a user's role has been removed from a tenant. An attack...

PYSEC-2012-35

OpenStack Keystone Essex 2012.1 and Folsom 2012.2 does not properly handle EC2 tokens when the user role has been removed from a tenant, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions by leveraging a token for the removed user role...

OpenStack: Keystone /etc/keystone/ec2rc secret key exposure

tools/sampledata.sh in OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3, when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 is configured, uses world-readable permissions for /etc/keystone/ec2rc, which allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from this...

[USN-1438-1] Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1438-1 May 03, 2012 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu...

[USN-1247-1] Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1247-1 October 25, 2011 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

Amazon Web Service Down, No Timeline for Remedy

Amazon Web Service’s AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site and TechCrunch darling, Quora.The Web hosting firm’s Relational Database Service...